Melissa Broder on the Inspiration for New Novel ‘Death Valley’ and Her High Hopes for the Big Screen

In Melissa Broder’s new novel, the protagonist is a novelist dealing with a father in the ICU and a husband with a chronic illness; she escapes to the parched California wilderness in search of figurative (and literal) clarity and discovers a cactus with mythical powers. Death Valley is what the…

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