Laura Van Den Berg

• Oct-2009
• / General Fiction
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"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, hu...

• Nov-2013
• / Psychological Suspense
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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 as...

• Feb-2015
• / Psychological Suspense
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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...

• Mar-2015
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-2017
• / General Fiction
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Fiction. The characters in this collection are searching for something more: in the markings on tortoise shells, on other planets, with new lovers and altered identities. These characters know there are whole worlds out there that have never been see...

• Aug-2018
• / Psychological Suspense
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"[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 PostFinalist for the NYPL Young Lions Award. Named a Best Book of 2...

• Aug-2020
• / General Fiction
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I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, Laura van den Berg’s first story collection since her acclaimed and prizewinning Isle of Youth, draws readers into a world of wholly original, sideways ghost stories that linger in the mouth and mind like rotten, fragrant...

• Jul-2024
• / Literary
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One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2024. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. An Apple Best Book of July. One of ELLE's Best Novels of 2024 So Far. "A brilliant ghost story and a profoundly moving and atmospheric meditation on place, memor...