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Jul 9, 2024 · “In State of Paradise, Laura van den Berg evokes a world and a family teetering on the edge of collapse. In her taut, precise prose, van den Berg juxtaposes global crises with personal ones. Amid a pandemic and Floridian super-storms, a family contends with a death and with past traumas.
Jul 12, 2024 · Laura van den Berg’s State of Paradise is a wonderful, enigmatic novel that effortlessly blends the commonplace and the extraordinary. A true-to-life narrative about a woman learning to...
Jul 9, 2024 · This is van den Berg, whose Lynchian sensibility and cool yet impassioned eye are somehow the perfect choice to examine what might be America’s most eccentric state and the ways that “we are called back to the things we most want to flee.”
Jul 8, 2024 · Van den Berg’s new novel, “State of Paradise,” unites these approaches, crafting a macabre tale in which the living interact with the dead and yet the eeriest souls are those with a pulse.
Jul 6, 2024 · Laura van den Berg’s new book, “State of Paradise,” sends readers down surreal portals to ask: How do we distinguish reality from its opposite — whatever that might be?
Jul 2, 2024 · Van den Berg, a born and bred Floridian, is rare among writers in making us viscerally grasp the enormity of ecological phenomena.
Jul 9, 2024 · A sticky, rain-soaked reckoning with the elusive nature of storytelling, Laura van den Berg’s State of Paradise is an interlocking and page-turning whirlwind. With inimitable control and thrilling style, she reaches deep into the void and returns with a story far stranger than either reality or fiction. "A brilliant ghost story and a ...
