# Heartbroke - Hardcover

by **Chelsea Bieker** (Author)

**Finalist for the California Book Award**

From the acclaimed author of _Godshot_ and "a pitch-perfect ventriloquist of extraordinary talent and ferocity" (T Kira Madden) comes a defining book of Californian stories where everyone is seeking or sabotaging love

United by the stark and sprawling landscapes of California's Central Valley, the characters of _Heartbroke_ boil with reckless desire. A woman steals a baby from a shelter in an attempt to recoup her own lost motherhood. A phone-sex operator sees divine opportunity when a lavender-eyed cowboy walks into her life. A mother and a son selling dream catchers along a highway that leads to a toxic beach manifest two young documentary filmmakers into their realm. And two teenage girls play a dangerous online game with destiny.

_Heartbroke_ brims over with each character's attempt to salvage grace where they can find it. Told in bright, snapping prose that reveals a world of loss and love underneath, Chelsea Bieker brilliantly illuminates a golden yet gothic world of longing and abandonment under an unrelenting California sun.

### Author Biography

**Chelsea Bieker** is the author of the novel _Godshot_, which was a finalist for both the Oregon and California Book Awards, long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, named an NPR Best Book of the Year, and a Barnes & Noble Fiction Pick. Her writing has appeared in _The Paris Review_, _Granta_, _The Cut_, _McSweeney's_, _Literary Hub_, _Electric Literature_, and other publications. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award and a MacDowell Fellowship. Originally from California's Central Valley, she now lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and two children.

**Number of Pages:** 288

**Dimensions:** 1.1 x 8.4 x 5.6 IN

**Publication Date:** April 05, 2022

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