Burnside

A Lynchian, absurdist debut novel for fans of Alexandra Tanner and Emma Cline about two disaffected young women and the local homeless man they become obsessed with. The Bowl is a strange place: Surrounded by abandoned almond orchards filled with feral children and neighboring towns that keep being razed by wildfires, the polluted, riverside city has a decades-old web of serial killers and missing people. Our unnamed narrator, a bookseller at a used bookstore, and her roommate September, a waitress at a cowgirl-themed breasturant, spend their days avoiding their deadbeat boyfriends, commuting…