{"title":"Melissa Broder","description":"Melissa Broder is the author of the novels Milk Fed and The Pisces, the essay collection So Sad Today, and five poetry collections, including Superdoom. She has written for The New York Times, Elle, and New York magazine's The Cut. She lives in Los Angeles. Follow her on Twitter @SoSadToday and @MelissaBroder and Instagram @RealMelissaBroder.","products":[{"product_id":"death-valley-paperback-1","title":"Death Valley - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by\u003ci\u003e The\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e(\"incandescent...hilarious...a triumph\"), \u003ci\u003eOprah Daily \u003c\/i\u003e(\"surreal, absurd, lucid, and wise\"), \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e (\"Broder [is] a genius and a sorceress\"), and more!\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the visionary author of \u003ci\u003eMilk Fed\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Pisces\u003c\/i\u003e, a darkly funny novel about grief and a \"magical tale of survival\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. 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By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, through obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting--until her therapist encourages her to take a ninety-day communication detox from her mother, who raised her in the tradition of calorie counting. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRachel soon meets Miriam, a zaftig young Orthodox Jewish woman who works at her favorite frozen yogurt shop and is intent upon feeding her. 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