“Absent characters often hover around the edges of these stories. Children long for dead parents; husbands deceased, divorced, or ignored wander in and out of thoughts. Creatures both real and imagined haunt people who fear or pursue them.”
Anya Yurchyshyn reviews Laura van den Berg’s What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us.
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