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Riotously original ... A triumph' NEW YORK TIMESA journey unlike any you''ve read before' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAHHer most profound book yet ... Surreal, hysterical and beguiling in every sense' GLAMOURThe 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

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Riotously original ... A triumph' NEW YORK TIMESA journey unlike any you''ve read before' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAHHer most profound book... Read more

    Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
    Publication Date: 8/1/2024
    ISBN13: 9781526665225, 978-1526665225
    ISBN10: 1526665220

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    Riotously original ... A triumph' NEW YORK TIMESA journey unlike any you''ve read before' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAHHer most profound book yet ... Surreal, hysterical and beguiling in every sense' GLAMOURThe 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

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