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I have to admit that this book was almost beyond the ability of an old man like me to grasp but here's what I think I read. It is broken into three parts. The first is fairly straightforward about a fifteen year old girl who drives her mothers Meteor through the desert to get away from her mother and mothers lover, Lorna. The second part was fairly abstract but was about Maudes who reads the Mauve Desert and becomes obsessed with it and tries to reinterpret it and the third part is Maudes reinterpretation of the book. Nicole Brossard's prose is very poetic and the book is worth the read simply for that reason but her storytelling is very abstract and it felt like I was trying to put together a puzzle to get any meaning from it. The funny part about this is that while I was reading the book I was thinking that won't read another of Brossard's books because of my difficulty in understanding it but as I was finishing the book and the pieces were coming together I decided that maybe I would like to try another of her books after all.