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What the world will look like when all the water leaves us, stories, by Laura van den Berg

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What the world will look like when all the water leaves us, stories, by Laura van den Berg

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eng

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fiction

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What the world will look like when all the water leaves us

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by Laura van den Berg

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stories

Summary

"The stories in Laura van den Berg's rich and inventive debut illuminate the intersection of the mythic and the mundane: A failed actress takes a job as a Bigfoot impersonator. A botanist seeking a rare flower crosses paths with a group of men hunting the Loch Ness Monster. A disillusioned missionary in Africa grapples with grief and a growing obsession with a creature rumored to live in the forests of the Congo. And in the title story, a young woman traveling with her scientist mother in Madagascar confronts her burgeoning sexuality and her dream of becoming a long-distance swimmer. Rendered with precision and longing, the women who narrate these starkly beautiful stories are consumed with searching--for absolution, for solace, for the flash of extraordinary in the ordinary that will forever alter their lives"--, Provided by publisher

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