![]() ![]() Escaping the only home he has ever known seems like Owen’s only choice at the time, but the universe has other plans. These are the folks that will become the core of the novel – the beating heart of Wonder Valley (and Wonder Valley.)īut the story really begins years earlier, when one of Patrick and Grace’s twin sons decides to flee the commune his parents began in Twentynine Palms. Even more than the runner himself, readers are introduced to a number of spectators at various locales along the highway. Wonder Valley begins with an effective tableau documenting the escapades of a naked runner dodging cars on the crowded Interstate 110 around Los Angeles, California. Not unlike the island of misfit toys, Ivy Pochoda’s Wonder Valley features a cast of characters residing on the outskirts of society – at the intersection of invisibility and inferiority – always in a constant battle to belong. Although it is an Eden-like sanctuary, temptation, betrayal, and happenstance threaten to disrupt its mercurial equilibrium. Wonder Valley is a desert oasis nestled in the backcountry of California and yet, it is also a mirage – both corporeal and elusive. ![]()
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