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Laura van den Berg
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What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us
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2009
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008
by Dave Eggers , Judy Blume, Rutu Modan  3.80 avg rating — 871 ratings
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2008
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Monkeybicycle6
by Steven Seighman , Laura van den Berg (Goodreads Author), Curtis Smith (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 28 ratings
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2009
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Monsters: A Collection of Literary Sightings
by Brian Baldi , Austin Bunn, Bonnie Jo Campbell 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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2012
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American Short Fiction Vol. 10 Issue 38 Summer 2007
by Stacey Swann , Desmond Hogan, Laura van den Berg (Goodreads Author) 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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2007
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I envy the fact that this author found her voice at such a young age--sophisticated, smart, worldly, but tender, too. I look forward to her next book.
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"Up High in the Air," "Where We Must Be" and "Still Life With Poppies" were all stunning, cinematic, enormous, moving without being maudlin - pitch-perfect portraits of desire and loneliness and absurdity. At times I wanted the absurdity to be amp...
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Several variation on the theme of pursuit. Each story is an evening read. I am still thinking about what it means.
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“Winds shake the leaves and for a moment I smell smoke. I concentrate on the scent, but it vanishes into the aroma of rain and tree bark, the way one life can collapse into another and different people can stir within the same body, like bats thrashing inside a secret hollow.”
― Laura van den Berg, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us
― Laura van den Berg, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us
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