Мелисса Бродер - циклы книг | Бумажные издания

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.

"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…

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 achingly poetic--questions most of us are afraid to even acknowledge, let alone answer, in order to discover what it really means to be a person in this modern world.