Golden State

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.

subjects: Mothers and daughters,  Rural conditions,  Fiction,  Desertion and non-support,  Household Moving,  Fiction, family life,  Mothers and daughters, fiction,  California, fiction,  FICTION / Literary,  FICTION / Women

Places: California,  San Francisco Bay Area,  Northern California