Death Valley by Melissa Broder

Death Valley by Melissa BroderRiotously original A triumph New York Times A journey unlike any you've read before Nana Kwame Adjei Brenyah, author of Chain Gang All Stars 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

Igbo- born enslaved- freed or fled at fifteen- aspiring orchardist

proven therapeutic techniques such as mindfulness

full of sharp ironic twists

the Kerlogue grows so dangerously overloaded that no one knows if they will survive amid the massive Biscay waves

a city becomes insomniac overnight

readers will enjoy the most loved and celebrated poems

who in turn will also discover the meaning of brutality

She has kept her powers hidden at all costs

and an alien tasked with retelling human fairy tales

so good' 5***** READER REVIEW

and illuminates the lives of outcasts

But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend to it