Book description
Along with her husband, a ghostwriter for a famous thriller author returns to her mother's house in the Florida town where she grew up. As the summer heat sets in, she wrestles with family secrets and memories of her own troubled youth. Her mercurial sister, who lives next door, spends…
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1 author picked State of Paradise as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I loved State of Paradise so much. I understand that some people may find it difficult to pick up a book about the early stages of the pandemic, but I am not one of those people. And honestly—who better than Laura van den Berg to reflect back to us the exceeding strangeness of that time? Also the exceeding strangeness of Florida, of going home again, of being and having a sister, of losing someone you love and then living with that absence, day after day?
Oh, also there’s a shadowy tech company, a virtual reality device that may or may…
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