![]() ![]() Pochoda’s novel goes back and forth in time, alternating between 20, when the naked man sets out on his unusual marathon. Pochoda has a real gift for pacing, and she’s a remarkably psychologically astute writer. It’s a dizzying, kaleidoscopic thriller that refuses to let readers look away from the dark side of Southern California. ![]() “Wonder Valley” follows several people on the edge, most paying in some way for poor decisions they’ve made, whose lives intersect in surprising and at times terrifying ways. ![]() Things get even weirder, and much darker, from there. The police are unable to catch him, but one observer surmises that his freedom is likely short-lived: “Because no one can vanish for good. And the man happens to be completely naked. It’s also not immediately clear who, if anyone, is in pursuit of him. ![]() For one thing, it’s not a car speeding down the freeway, it’s a young man on foot. “Wonder Valley,” the third novel from author Ivy Pochoda, begins with a classic Los Angeles tableau: a chase on the 101, complete with a police helicopter, camera-toting news crews and spectators recording the spectacle on their smartphones.īut this chase is different. ![]()
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