The Third Hotel is another of her beguiling little masterpieces. Laura van den Berg is one of our best writers, an absolute marvel.' -Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You 'I love the way Laura van den Berg writes. As inventive and inexorable as a dream, The Third Hotel is a devastating excavation of the unconscionable demands we place on those we love, and a profound portrait of the uncanny composite creature that is a marriage. The Third Hotel is artfully fractured, slim and singular it's a book that sings, but always with a strange pressure more felt than heard beneath the song.' -Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies 'In this gorgeous, frighteningly smart novel, a woman deranged by grief becomes an imposter in her own life.

Praise for The Third Hotel 'I love Laura van den Berg for her eeriness and her elegance, the way the fabric of her stories is woven on a slightly warped loom so that you read her work always a bit perturbed. The Third Hotel is a propulsive, brilliantly shape-shifting novel from an inventive author at the height of her narrative powers. As the distinction between reality and fantasy blurs, Clare finds grounding in memories of her childhood in Florida and of her marriage to Richard, revealing her role in his death and reappearance along the way. Grief-stricken and baffled, Clare tails Richard, a horror film scholar, through the newly tourist-filled streets of Havana, clocking his every move. He's wearing a white linen suit she's never seen before, and he's supposed to be dead. Shortly after Clare arrives in Havana, Cuba, to attend the annual Festival of New Latin American Cinema, she finds her husband, Richard, standing outside a museum. In Havana, Cuba, a widow tries to come to terms with her husband's death-and the truth about their marriage-in Laura van den Berg's surreal, mystifying story of psychological reflection and metaphysical mystery. Named a Summer 2018 Read by The Washington Post, Vulture, Nylon, Elle, BBC, InStyle, Refinery29, Bustle, O, the Oprah Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Harper's Bazaar, Conde Nast Traveler, Southern Living, Lit Hub, and Vol. Named a Best Book of 2018 by The Boston Globe, Huffington Post, Electric Literature and Lit Hub. The Washington Post Finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Award. The New York Times Book Review There's Borges and Bola o, Kafka and Cort zar, Modiano and Murakami, and now Laura van den Berg.

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