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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

THE ISLE OF YOUTH
By: Laura Van den Berg

FSG Originals
November 2013
On Sale: November 5, 2013
256 pages
ISBN: 0374177236
EAN: 9780374177232
Kindle: B00CQY9F36
Paperback / e-Book
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Trade Paperback (June 2024)

Fiction

Laura van den Berg’s gorgeous new book, The Isle of Youth, explores the lives of women mired in secrecy and deception. From a newlywed caught in an inscrutable marriage, to private eyes working a baffling case in South Florida, to a teenager who assists her magician mother and steals from the audience, the characters in these bewitching stories are at once vulnerable and dangerous, bighearted and ruthless, and they will do what it takes to survive.

Each tale is spun with elegant urgency, and the reader grows attached to the marginalized young women in these stories—women grappling with the choices they’ve made and searching for the clues to unlock their inner worlds. This is the work of a fearless writer whose stories feel both magical and mystical, earning her the title of “sorceress” from her readers. Be prepared to fall under her spell.

Media Buzz

All Things Considered - November 17, 2013