num_pages: 205
description: The stories in Laura van den Bergs rich and inventive debut illuminate the intersection of the mythic and the mundane.A failed actress takes a job as a Bigfoot impersonator. A grieving missionary becomes obsessed with a creature rumoured to live in the forests of the Congo. And in the title story a young woman travelling with her scientist mother in Madagascar confronts her burgeoning sexuality and her dream of becoming a long-distance swimmer.
language: English
title: What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us: Stories
publisher: Dzanc Books