{"product_id":"9781526665225-retail-death-valley","title":"Death Valley","description":"'Riotously original ... A triumph'  NEW YORK TIMES ' A journey unlike any you've read before '  NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH ' Her most profound book yet ... Surreal, hysterical and beguiling in every sense '  GLAMOUR The most profound book yet from the visionary author of  Milk Fed  and  The Pisces , a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story. A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to the California high desert to escape a cloud of sorrow - for both her father in the ICU and a husband whose illness is worsening. What the motel provides, however, is not peace but a path, thanks to a receptionist who recommends a nearby hike. Out on the sun-scorched trail, the woman encounters a towering cactus whose size and shape mean it should not exist in California. Yet the cactus is there, with a gash through its side that beckons like a familiar door. So she enters it. What awaits her inside this mystical succulent sets her on a journey at once desolate and rich, hilarious and poignant. This is Melissa Broder at her most imaginative, most universal, and finest. This is  Death Valley . PRAISE FOR  THE PISCES 'Of all the books that I read this summer I think this was my absolute favourite. It really blew me away'  DOLLY ALDERTON 'Frank, provocative and brilliant'  INDEPENDENT 'Hilarious, poignant, sexy. A brilliant story about why we crave connection and how to find ourselves'  ELLE 'Laugh-out-loud funny'   i","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48991514788059,"sku":"9781526665225-RETAIL","price":19.54,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/0387f8b1-b61b-4810-986b-c083a2f47791.jpg?v=1784507177","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781526665225-retail-death-valley","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}