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Book Synopsis[Laura van den Berg is] a master of the short story form. Hers are deliciously unnerving, moving, and monstrous tales. Karen Russell, author of Orange World and other stories
A smart, fun, noir-y treasure map . . . Van den Berg somehow packs a duffel bag of plot into carry-on-size stories. She also has the right kind of range: from brutal to moving to funny, South America to Paris to Antarctica, really great to freaking outstanding. Kathryn Schulz, New York
The surreal, compulsively readable collection that established Laura van den Berg as a singular stylist, reissued for its tenth anniversary.
The Isle of Youth, Laura van den Berg's breakout second story collection, explores the lives of women who are mired in secrecy and deception. Ranging from the inscrutability of a marriage, to private eyes working a baffling case in South Florida, to a teenager who assists her magician mother and steals from the audience, these s
