Death Valley: A Novel by Melissa Broder book Gidge was a big believer

Gidge was a big believer in reincarnation

Yet their greatest adversary is the fiery passion between them

throwing everyone's integrity into question—and their long-drawn-out territorial dance

balances a struggling legal aid practice with motherhood and the care of the now ninety-three-year-old Nena

Death Valley: A Novel by Melissa Broder book Gidge was a big believerIn Melissa Broders 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 sorrowfor 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. Out along the sun scorched trail, the narrator encounters a towering cactus