The author's latest novel blends absurdity with soul-shattering profundity
is an off-kilter triumph. The LA-based author started out by tweeting funny insights about mental health from the annonymous Twitter account @sosadtoday, which became an essay collection of the same name.
She has since published two terrific works of fiction and as one would expect from the author of those novels – 2018’sfollows a talent agency underling who falls for an Orthodox Jewish frozen yoghurt scooper – her latest blends absurdity with soul-shattering profundity.’s unnamed narrator has a father in the ICU and a husband suffering from a chronic illness, which incidentally mirrors Broder’s own personal situation at the time of writing.
Now here comes the absurd bit. Striking out from her Best Western motel, the narrator comes across a gigantic cactus; sliding inside through a wound in its trunk, she enters a parallel reality where she meets her father as a child and a teenager, and her husband as a sickly little boy. “My father the child: how did that happen? I don’t use psychedelics. I don’t even take cough medicine.”
While the experiences are perplexing, they’re also intoxicating; meeting the men that dominate her current inner life as their past selves allows her to empathise rather than blame herself or feel resentful . But when she sets off for the cactus again, she gets lost – bit by bit and then all at once. Falling from a ledge and breaking her ankle, running low on water and battered by the desert’s extreme temperatures, she is soon in dire danger. “I’m bleeding on a mountain. I feel surprised.
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