The Golden State
By: Lydia Kiesling
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780374164836
Subjects: Mothers and daughters; Rural conditions; Fiction; Desertion and non-support; Household Moving
Description: 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.