Melissa Broder's previous novel, 'Milk Fed,' showed her talent for making reality uncanny. In 'Death Valley,' a woman finds redemption in a giant cactus.
Angeleno poet and novelist Melissa Broder’s new novel, “Death Valley,” tracks a woman’s wanderings in the desert with a sly mix of hilarity and solemnity.in the form of an Orthodox Jewish woman whose family owns a frozen yogurt chain in Los Angeles. It was as wacky and wonderful as that sounds. In her latest novel, “to escape her father’s second hospitalization in L.A.
She also knows how to start and end a chapter and — most important — a novel. Like “Milk Fed,” “Death Valley” is never, ever boring. This is high praise considering that our heroine spends 85% of the book in the desert and the rest at a Best Western.“I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness” is a novel torn from Watkins’ desert life — Charles Manson, addiction and the incessant pursuit of true freedom.,” in which the heroine’s father dies and becomes a leaf.
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