Новинки Мелиссы Бродер

The most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story.

In Melissa Broder’s astounding 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, thanks to a receptionist who recommends a nearby hike.

Out on the sun-scorched trail, the woman 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. What awaits her inside this mystical succulent sets her on a journey at once desolate and rich, hilarious and poignant.

This is Melissa Broder at her most imaginative, most universal, and finest. This is Death Valley.

Lucy has been writing her dissertation for nine years when she and her boyfriend have a dramatic break up. After she hits rock bottom, her sister in Los Angeles insists that Lucy dog-sit for the summer.
Staying in a gorgeous house on Venice Beach, Lucy can find little relief from her anxiety – not in the Greek chorus of women in her love addiction therapy group, not in her frequent Tinder excursions, not even in Dominic the dog's easy affection.
Everything changes when she becomes entranced by an eerily attractive swimmer while sitting alone on the beach rocks one night. But when Lucy learns the truth about his identity, their relationship, and Lucy's understanding of what love should look like, take a very unexpected turn.

«Рыбы» – роман, в котором темная фантазия сталкивается с еще более темной реальностью.

«Вопрос не в том, что такое любовь, а в том, действительно ли я ищу именно ее?» – говорит Люси, главная героиня романа Мелиссы Бродер.

Ее многолетний роман заканчивается крахом, и Люси перебирается в Калифорнию. Формально – присматривать за собакой уехавшей в отпуск сестры и дописывать диссертацию. На деле – переживать разочарование.

Чтобы разобраться в себе, Люси прибегает к групповой терапии, пытается познакомиться в Тиндере. Ей важно понять причины своей ненормальной одержимости и психологической зависимости от очередного мужчины. Но самое глубокое погружение в собственный внутренний мир случается, когда она знакомится с Тео – существом из греческих мифов.

"Рыбы" — роман, в котором темная фантазия сталкивается с еще более темной реальностью. "Вопрос не в том, что такое любовь, а в том, действительно ли я ищу именно ее?" говорит Люси, главная героиня романа Мелиссы Бродер. Ее многолетний роман закачивается крахом, и Люси перебирается в Калифорнию. Формально — присматривать за собакой уехавшей в отпуск сестры и дописывать диссертацию. На деле — переживать разочарование. Чтобы разобраться в себе, Люси прибегает к групповой терапии, пытается познакомиться в Тиндере. Ей важно понять причины своей ненормальной одержимости и психологической зависимости от очередного мужчины. Но самое…

Unapologetically intimate essays on sex, death, mental illness, and other taboos by poet and writer Melissa Broder, the creator of @sosadtoday. In the past, my husband has said that he would prefer not to be a subject of my writing. But he has also said that he would never want to censor me. He says, Do what you need to do for art. Poetry is art. Is an es

Lucy has been writing her dissertation about Sappho for thirteen years when she and Jamie break up. After she hits rock bottom in Phoenix, her Los Angeles-based sister insists Lucy housesit for the summer—her only tasks caring for a beloved diabetic dog and trying to learn to care for herself. Annika’s home is a gorgeous glass cube atop Venice Beach, but Lucy can find no peace from her misery and anxiety—not in her love addiction group therapy meetings, not in frequent Tinder meetups, not in Dominic the foxhound’s easy affection, not in ruminating on the ancient Greeks. Yet everything changes when Lucy becomes entranced by an eerily attractive swimmer one night while sitting alone on the beach rocks.

Whip-smart, neurotically funny, sexy, and above all, fearless, The Pisces is built on a premise both sirenic and incredibly real—what happens when you think love will save you but are afraid it might also kill you.

Melissa Broder always struggled with anxiety. In the fall of 2012, she went through a harrowing cycle of panic attacks and dread that wouldn't abate for months. So she began @sosadtoday, an anonymous Twitter feed that allowed her to express her darkest feelings, and which quickly gained a dedicated following. In SO SAD TODAY, Broder delves deeper into the existential themes she explores on Twitter, grappling with sex, death, love low self-esteem, addiction, and the drama of waiting for the universe to text you back. With insights as sharp as her humor, Broder explores--in prose that is both ballsy and beautiful, aggressively colloquial and…