State of Paradise

Laura van den Berg

Language: English

Description:

Named a Most Anticipated Book by TIME, Oprah Daily, Esquire, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, ELLE, Bustle, and Lit Hub

"A brilliant ghost story and a profoundly moving and atmospheric meditation on place, memory, and the very nature of reality, where everything is truly not as it seems."
—Mona Awad, author of Rouge
"A wholly original and epically engaging novel from a master of episodic oddity." —Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch
A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida's underbelly from the celebrated Laura van den Berg

It's another summer in a small Florida town. After an illness that vanishes as mysteriously as it arrived, everything appears to be getting back to normal: soul-crushing heat, torrential downpours, sinkholes swallowing the earth, ominous cats, a world-bending virtual reality device being handed out by a company called...