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Find Me by Laura Van den Berg
Category: Fiction
Things I will never forget: my name, my made-up birthday... the dark of the Hospital at night. My mother's face, when she was young. Things other people will forget: where they come from, how old they are, the faces of the people they love. The right words for bowl and sunshine... what is a beginning an ...Show more
Find Me by Laura Van den Berg
Category: Fiction
Things I will never forget: my name, my made-up birthdayâe¦The dark of the Hospital at night. My motherâe(tm)s face, when she was young.. Joy spends her days working the graveyard shift at a store outside Boston and nursing an addiction to cough syrup, an attempt to suppress her troubled past. But when ...Show more
Find Me A Novel by Laura van den Berg
Category: Literature
After two acclaimed story collections, Laura van den Berg brings us Find Me, her highly anticipated debut novel—a gripping, imaginative, darkly funny tale of a young woman struggling to find her place in the world. Joy has no one. She spends her days working the graveyard shift at a grocery store ou ...Show more
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears - Stories by Laura van den Berg
Category: Short Stories
ONE OF TIME'S 10 BEST FICTION BOOKS OF 2020. Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR, Bustle, Good Housekeeping, the New York Public Library, Library Journal, Lit Hub, Electric Literature, and Tor.comAs enchanting as fairy tales, as mysterious as dreams, these exqui ...Show more
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories by Laura van den Berg
Category: Fiction
As enchanting as fairy tales, as mysterious as dreams, these exquisitely composed fictions are as urgent and original as any being written today." --Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend, winner of the 2018 National Book Award for FictionOne of Entertainment Weekly's 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2020 and 3 ...Show more
The Isle of Youth by Laura Van den Berg
Category: Fiction
Laura van den Berg's gorgeous new book, "The Isle of Youth," explores the lives of women mired in secrecy and deception. From a newlywed caught in an inscrutable marriage, to private eyes working a baffling case in South Florida, to a teenager who assists her magician mother and steals from the audience ...Show more
The Third Hotel by Laura van den Berg
Category: Fiction
In Havana, Cuba, a widow tries to come to terms with her husband's death--and the truth about their marriage--in Laura van den Berg's surreal, mystifying story of psychological reflection and metaphysical mystery. " A] future cult classic." --The New York Times Book Review "There's Borges and Bola o, Ka ...Show more
The Third Hotel - A Novel by Laura van den Berg
Category: Fiction
"[A] future cult classic." --The New York Times Book Review "There's Borges and Bolaño, Kafka and Cortázar, Modiano and Murakami, and now Laura van den Berg." --The Washington Post An August 2018 IndieNext Selection. Named a Summer 2018 Read by The Washington Post, Vulture, Nylon, Elle, BBC, InStyle, ...Show more
What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us by Laura van den Berg
Category: Fiction
What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us is a lovely, remarkable book, full of people who strive mightily to believe in things--Bigfoot, the Lochness and Lake Michigan monsters, a tunnel leading to the other side of the world, husbands, wives, lovers, parents--they shouldn't. But Laura ...Show more
What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us by Laura van den Berg
Category: Fiction
The stories in Laura van den Berg's rich and inventive debut illuminate the intersection of the mythic and the mundane. A failed actress takes a job as a Bigfoot impersonator. A grieving missionary becomes obsessed with a creature rumoured to live in the forests of the Congo. And, in the title story, a ...Show more
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