Death Valley, by Melissa Broder (Bloomsbury Circus 2023)
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Neil
Death Valley is an acid trip of a novel, set in the California high desert, it's about a woman travelling alone to escape her sad and lonely life. It's a surreal and magical novel, yet real and wise, briskly written, self-aware and knowing, it's possibly about the possibility of transformation. But possibly not.