The Isle of Youth
- ISBN-10
- 1907970681
- ISBN-13
- 9781907970689
- Pages
- 244
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-03
- Author
- Laura Van den Berg
Description
In this collection of stories, the author explores the lives of women who are mired in secrecy and deception. Ranging from the inscrutability of a marriage to private eyes working a baffling case in South Florida to a teenager who assists her magician mother and steals from the audience, these stories are linked by mystery and by women who are at once vulnerable and dangerous, bighearted and ruthless - who will do what it takes to survive.
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