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Laura van den Berg

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I'm the author of a collection of stories titled What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, published by Dzanc Books in October 2009. The collection was a Holiday pick for the Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” Program, received a starred review in Booklist, and was included on year-end lists published by the Louisville Courier-Journal, The Daily Beast, and Virginia Quarterly Review; in their description of the Holiday "Discover" selections, Barnes & Noble wrote of What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us: “The mysteries of science and the mysteries of the heart—perhaps nowhere have they been so provocatively linked as in this debut short-story collection.”

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What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us by Laura van den Berg
" 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. "
What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us by Laura van den Berg
" "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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A wonderful, inventive, & magical debut novel. I loved every minute of reading it.
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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

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