Mauve DesertFirst published in 1987, Nicole Brossard's classic novel returns to Coach House in a new edition. A seminal text in Canadian and feminist literature, Mauve Desert is a must read for readers and writers alike. This is both a single novel and three separate novels in one. In the first, Mauve Desert, fifteen year old Melanie drives across the Arizona desert in a white Meteor chasing fear and desire, cutting loose from her mother and her mother's lover,