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Elegy, Southwest

Madeleine Watts
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American Southwest
Australian Fiction
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Climate Fiction
Desert
Environmental Catastrophe
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Fiction About Art
Grieving a Parent
Health Anxiety
Literary Fiction
Love Story
Mental Health
Missed Period
Portrait of Marriage
Pregnancy
Relationship Breakdown
Road Trip Novel
The Colorado River
Unplanned Pregnancy
Wildfires

Product details

  • ISBN 9781805337638
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Mar 2026
  • Publisher: Pushkin Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description
From the author of The Inland Sea comes a stunning new novel about a couple's road trip through the American desert for fans of Valeria Luiselli's The Lost Children Archive and Rachel Cusk.

'Tremendously moving' Leslie Jamison

'Enormously impressive' Guardian

Eloise has known two great loves: her husband, Lewis, and the desert. Together, they set off on an unforgettable road trip through the American Southwest, passing vast canyons, glittering casinos and motels fallen into decay.

As Eloise documents the disappearing Colorado River, Lewis grieves his mother in the prickly terrain of his upbringing. Surrounded by loss, they cherish the miracle of having found each other, but each harbours a secret, driving them towards a destination neither is ready to face.

Haunting and richly atmospheric, this is a story about whether it's ever possible to truly know those closest to us, and an elegy for a land running dry.

PRAISE FOR ELEGY, SOUTHWEST:

'Exquisite'TLS

'Haunting and precise' Spectator

'Strikingly brilliant' Heidi Julavits

'Astonishingly and chillingly prescient' FT

'An expansive, ambitious novel' Ellena Savage

'A startlingly good writer' Amina Cain, author of Indelicacy
About Madeleine Watts
Madeleine Watts is the author of The Inland Sea, which was shortlisted for the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing. Her novella, Afraid of Waking It, was awarded the Griffith Review Novella Prize. Her nonfiction has been published extensively in Harper's Magazine, The Guardian, The Believer, The Paris Review, Literary Hub, and Astra Magazine. She has an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. Born in Sydney, Australia, she lives between New York and Berlin.

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