A01=Laura van den Berg
american literature
Author_Laura van den Berg
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family
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gifts for women
literary
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psychological
secrets
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speculative fiction
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women authors
Product details
- ISBN 9781250390516
- Weight: 200g
- Dimensions: 137 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 18 Aug 2025
- Publisher: St Martin's Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Then, during a violent rainstorm, her sister goes missing. She returns a few days later, sprawled on their mother’s lawn and speaking of another dimension. Now the ghostwriter must investigate not only what happened to her sister and the other missing people but also the uncanny connections between ELECTRA, the famous author she works for, and reality itself.
A sticky, rain-soaked reckoning with the elusive nature of selfhood and storytelling, Laura van den Berg’s State of Paradise is an intricate and page-turning whirlwind. With inimitable control and thrilling style, van den Berg reaches deep into the void and returns with a story far stranger than either reality or fiction.
Laura van den Berg was born and raised in Florida. She is the author of the novels Find Me and The Third Hotel, which was a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and three story collections, including The Isle of Youth and I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, which was named one of the ten best fiction books of 2020 by Time. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bard Fiction Prize, a PEN/O. Henry Prize, and a MacDowell Fellowship, and she is a two-time finalist for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. She lives in the Hudson Valley.
