pbNATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION 5 UNDER 35 PICK. FINALIST FOR THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD. bbLONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION'S FIRST NOVEL PRIZE.b pbNamed one of the Best Books of 2018 by NPR, iBookforumi and iBustlei. One of iEntertainment Weeklyi's 10 Best Debut Novels of 2018. An Amazon Best Book of the Month and named a fall read by iBuzzfeed, Nylon, Entertainment Weekly, Elle, Vanity Fair, Vulture, i iRefinery29i and iMind Body GreenibbrbbrA gorgeous, raw debut novel about a young woman braving the ups and downs of motherhood in a fractured Americab pIn Lydia Kiesling's razor-sharp debut novel, iThe Golden Statei, we accompany Daphne, a young mother on the edge of a breakdown, as she flees her sensible but strained life in San Francisco for the high desert of Altavista with her toddler, Honey. Bucking under the weight of being a single parent--her Turkish husband is unable to return to the United States because of a processing error--Daphne takes refuge in a mobile home l