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

Author(s): Laura van den Berg

Short Stories

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 grieving missionary becomes obsessed with a creature rumoured to live in the forests of the Congo. And, in the title story, a young woman travelling with her scientist mother in Madagascar confronts her burgeoning sexuality and her dream of becoming a long-distance swimmer. Rendered with grace and precision, this breathtaking collection is narrated by women yearning for absolution, for solace, for the flash of extraordinary that will forever alter their lives.

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Laura van den Berg's short fiction has appeared in One Story, American Short Fiction, The Boston Review, Best American Non-required Reading 2008, Best New American Voices 2010, and The Pushcart Prize XXIV: Best of the Small Presses, among others.

General Fields

  • : 9781921640896
  • : Scribe Publications
  • : Scribe Publications
  • : December 2010
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Laura van den Berg
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : 192