The Golden State

By Lydia Kiesling

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

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.