New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's very hightly praised first novel, a "5 Under 35 Award" by the National Book Foundation, among other honors. Daphne, a young mother on the edge of a breakdown, flees her strained life in San Francisco for the high desert of Altavista with her toddler, Honey, in hopes that the quiet will bring clarity. Instead she finds her relationships with two women she meets there culminating in a dangerous standoff. "Keenly observed, bristling with humor, and set against the beauty of a little-known part of California, The Golden State is about class and cultural breakdowns, and desperate attempts to bridge old and new worlds. But more than anything, it is about motherhood: its voracious worry, frequent tedium, and enthralling, wondrous love." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 292 pp. ISBN: 978-0374164836.