State of Paradise

<p><b>Named a Most Anticipated Book by <i>TIME,</i><i>Oprah Daily, The Boston Globe</i>, <i>ELLE, Bustle</i>, and <i>Lit Hub</i></b><br><b><br>"A brilliant ghost story and a profoundly moving and atmospheric meditation on place, memory, and the very nature of reality, where everything is truly not as it seems."</b><b>¿Mona Awad, author of<i> Rouge</i></b><br><br><b>"A wholly original and epically engaging novel from a master of episodic oddity." ¿Rachel Yoder, author of <i>Nightbitch</i><br><br>A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida¿s underbelly from the celebrated Laura van den Berg</b><br><br>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 a growing amount of time using MIND¿S EYE, a virtual reality device provided to citizens of