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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