This Week In Reading: The Isle of Youth by Laura Van den Berg Short story collections are my favorite types of books to read. This one, The Isle of Youth, by Laura Van den Berg, was particularly good, conjuring up a kind of driftlessness and isolation and introspection. The stories are about lies, about the gaps in knowledge that form between two people because no one bothered to ask the necessary questions. The daughter of a magician learning how much of her family history was an illusion, a wife painting her face white and attending a party for French acrobats, a woman traveling to Antarctica to address the distance between her and her brother, a sister trying on her twin’s life. Deceptions become gaps that widen into voids until the characters realize that everyone else is miles away.
in defense of lying
in defense of lying
in defense of lying
This Week In Reading: The Isle of Youth by Laura Van den Berg Short story collections are my favorite types of books to read. This one, The Isle of Youth, by Laura Van den Berg, was particularly good, conjuring up a kind of driftlessness and isolation and introspection. The stories are about lies, about the gaps in knowledge that form between two people because no one bothered to ask the necessary questions. The daughter of a magician learning how much of her family history was an illusion, a wife painting her face white and attending a party for French acrobats, a woman traveling to Antarctica to address the distance between her and her brother, a sister trying on her twin’s life. Deceptions become gaps that widen into voids until the characters realize that everyone else is miles away.