Un été à Pomoc, bourgade dans le désert du Nevada. Cale Lamb trouve un emploi de serveuse et renoue avec Penelope Reyes, une ancienne amie du lycée. Les jeunes femmes deviennent inséparables. Après un drame qui bouleverse leurs existences, Penny disparaît et Cale se lance seule à sa recherche dans le désert. Pen Hemingway Award 2020. Premier roman. ©Electre 2022

Finalist for the Pen/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction "[A] scorching desert-noir. . . . Like her nervy protagonists, Tomar is a taker of risks." --New York Times Book Review "Breathtaking . . . For Penny and Cale, violence looms at all corners and in Tomar's compassionate rendering, they are imbued with strength, fortitude and fierceness." --San Francisco Chronicle Cale Lambert, a bookish loner of mysterious parentage, lives in a dusty town near the California-Nevada border, a place where coyotes scavenge for backyard dogs and long-haul truckers scavenge for pills and girls. Cale was raised by her grandfather in a loving, if codependent, household, but as soon as she's left high school his health begins an agonizing decline. Set adrift for the first time, Cale starts waitressing at the local diner, where she reconnects with Penélope Reyes, a charismatic former classmate running mysterious side-hustles to fund her dreams. Penny exposes Cale to the reality that exists beyond their small town, and the girls become inseparable--until one terrifying act of violence shatters their world. When Penny vanishes without a trace, Cale must set off on a dangerous quest across the desert to find her friend, and discover herself. An audacious debut, told in deftly interwoven chapters, A Prayer for Travelers explores the complicated legacy of the American West and the trauma of female experience.

Un été à Pomoc, bourgade dans le désert du Nevada. Cale Lamb trouve un emploi de serveuse et renoue avec Penelope Reyes, une ancienne amie du lycée. Les jeunes femmes deviennent inséparables. Après un drame qui bouleverse leurs existences, Penny disparaît et Cale se lance seule à sa recherche dans le désert. Pen Hemingway Award 2020. Premier roman. ©Electre 2024