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The Third Hotel by Laura Van Den Berg
Some books, rare ones, offer a hallucinatory experience, and Laura van den Berg’s stunning The Third Hotel fits squarely into that category. Knocked sideways by grief, 37-year-old Clare decides to travel to Havana for a film festival she had planned to attend with her late husband, Richard. An emotionally aloof traveling saleswoman, Clare is an intriguing mix of mundane predilections (she loves Nebraska and airport hotels) and bizarre impulses (she licks murals and eats paper). She’s an enigma to everyone except the reader, who is plunged immediately and inextricably into Clare’s perspective — a position that grows increasingly surreal. When Clare spots Richard in Havana, they engage in a comic game of cat-and-mouse, as Clare seeks answers to unresolved questions about their strained marriage and the metaphysics of death. Playful, puzzling, and evocative, The Third Hotel wraps the reader in the swirling eddy of Clare’s grief and deposits them downstream, as perplexed and transformed as its heroine. We’ve never read a better evocation of the mind-altering experience of loss. With great excitement, we present The Third Hotel as Volume 75 of Indiespensable.
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