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Also by Laura Van den Berg:

State of Paradise, July 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
The Isle of Youth, June 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, August 2021
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, July 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
The Isle Of Youth, November 2013
Paperback / e-Book

I Hold a Wolf by the Ears
Laura Van den Berg

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
July 2020
On Sale: July 28, 2020
224 pages
ISBN: 0374102090
EAN: 9780374102098
Kindle: B07Y73F1XY
Hardcover / e-Book
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Trade Size (reprint - August 2021)

Women's Fiction Psychological | Thriller

An urgent and unsettling collection of women on the verge from Laura van den Berg, author of The Third Hotel

I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, Laura van den Berg’s first story collection since her acclaimed and prizewinning Isle of Youth, draws readers into a world of wholly original, sideways ghost stories that linger in the mouth and mind like rotten, fragrant fruit. Both timeless and urgent, these eleven stories confront misogyny, violence, and the impossible economics of America with van den Berg’s trademark spiky humor and surreal eye. Moving from the peculiarities of Florida to liminal spaces of travel in Mexico City, Sicily, and Iceland, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears is uncannily attuned to our current moment, and to the thoughts we reveal to no one but ourselves.

In “Lizards,” a man mutes his wife's anxieties by giving her a La Croix–like seltzer laced with sedatives. In the title story, a woman poses as her more successful sister during a botched Italian holiday, a choice that brings about strange and violent consequences, while in “Karolina,” a woman discovers her prickly ex-sister-in-law in the aftermath of an earthquake and is forced to face the truth about her violent brother.

I Hold a Wolf by the Ears presents a collection of women on the verge, trying to grasp what’s left of life: grieving, divorced, and hyperaware, searching, vulnerable, and unhinged, they exist in a world that deviates from our own only when you look too close. With remarkable control and transcendent talent, van den Berg dissolves, in the words of the narrator of “Slumberland," “that border between magic and annihilation,” and further establishes herself as a defining fiction writer of our time.

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