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.
‘Riotously 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
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