i adored this book. a woman with a dying father and a chronically ill husband goes to a best western in the desert to get inspiration for her book, but ends up having a trippy magical realism journey in the desert that teaches her about grief, loss, her strength, her love, and her life. i like to annotate my physical books, and this book is filled with pink highlighter and notes. the prose is stunning, magical, and haunting. it is refreshing to read about the rawness and realness of grief. grief changes us, in bad ways, but also in beautiful ones. i loved this!