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Soho
August 2015
On Sale: August 4, 2015
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272 pages ISBN: 1616955090 EAN: 9781616955090 Kindle: B00PEOIZA4 Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction
Ruth Galm’s spare, poetic debut novel, set in the
American West of early Joan Didion, traces the drifting path
of a young woman as she skirts the law and her own
oppressive anxiety.
Into the Valley opens
on the day in July 1967 when B. decides to pass her first
counterfeit check and flee San Francisco for the Central
Valley. Caught between generations and unmarried at 30, B.
doesn’t understand the new counterculture youths. She likes
the dresses and kid gloves of her mother’s generation, but
doesn’t fit into that world either.
B. is beset by a
disintegrative anxiety she calls “the carsickness,” and the
only relief comes in handling illicit checks and driving
endlessly through the valley. As she travels the bare,
anonymous landscape, meeting an array of other characters—an
alcoholic professor, a bohemian teenage girl, a criminal
admirer—B.’s flight becomes that of a woman unraveling, a
person lost between who she is and who she cannot yet be.
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