292 pages
English language
Published 2018 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
The Golden State
Lydia Kiesling: The Golden State (2018, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- ISBN:
- 978-0-374-16483-6
- OCLC Number:
- 1019839442
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In Lydia Kiesling's razor-sharp debut novel, The Golden State, we accompany Daphne, a young mother on the edge of a breakdown, as she flees her sensible but strained life in San Francisco for the high desert of Altavista with her toddler, Honey. Bucking under the weight of being a single parent--her Turkish husband is unable to return to the United States because of a "processing error"--Daphne takes refuge in a mobile home left to her by her grandparents in hopes that the quiet will bring clarity.
In Lydia Kiesling's razor-sharp debut novel, The Golden State, we accompany Daphne, a young mother on the edge of a breakdown, as she flees her sensible but strained life in San Francisco for the high desert of Altavista with her toddler, Honey. Bucking under the weight of being a single parent--her Turkish husband is unable to return to the United States because of a "processing error"--Daphne takes refuge in a mobile home left to her by her grandparents in hopes that the quiet will bring clarity.
Subjects
- Mothers and daughters
- Rural conditions
- Fiction
- Desertion and non-support
- Household Moving
Places
- California
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Northern California