{"product_id":"death-valley-melissa-broder-simon-and-schuster","title":"Death Valley - Melissa Broder - Simon and Schuster","description":"\u003cbr\u003eIn Melissa Broder’s astonishingly profound new novel, 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 discovered on a nearby hike.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOut along the sun-scorched trail, the narrator 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDeath Valley\u003c\/span\u003e is Melissa Broder at her most imaginative, most universal, and finest, and is “a journey unlike any you’ve read before” (Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eChain-Gang All-Stars\u003c\/span\u003e).","brand":"Frames Etc ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62779963310239,"sku":"168506710301","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0632\/9450\/5119\/files\/IMG_5504.jpg?v=1777042733","url":"https:\/\/www.framesetc.net\/products\/death-valley-melissa-broder-simon-and-schuster","provider":"Frames Etc ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}