What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us - Softcover

Van Den Berg, Laura

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0976717778 ISBN 13: 9780976717775

Publisher: Dzanc Books, 2009

Synopsis

Van der Berg, Laura. What The World Will Look Like When All The Water Leaves Us. Advance Reader Copy. Westland, MI, Dzanc Books, 2009. 14 x 21.5cm. 205 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition, as new. 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 inpersonator. A bontanist seeking a rare flower crosses path 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 forest 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. [From publisher's notes]

About this title

About the Author:

Laura van den Berg was raised in Florida and earned her MFA at Emerson College. She is the recipient of scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the winner of the 2007 Dzanc Prize. Her fiction has appeared in The Indiana Review, The Literary Review, American Short Fiction, One Story, StoryQuarterly, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dzanc Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0976717778
• ISBN 13: 9780976717775
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 205