Death Valley: A Novel by Melissa Broder book throwing everyone's integrity into question—and

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

the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone

and their sense of what matters evolves

Does the Stanford essay convince her to take him up on the ride

Yet their greatest adversary is the fiery passion between them

Death Valley: A Novel by Melissa Broder book throwing everyone's integrity into question—andIn 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