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Starting with its deeply ironic title, Laura van den Berg’s new novel, “State of Paradise,” is a creepy, hypnotic, disturbing portrait of Florida that, if you’ve spent any time here, simultaneously seems like surreal speculative fiction and just another day in the Sunshine State.This compelling novel is the third by van den Berg, after “The Third Hotel” and “Find Me.” (She’s also published four collections of short stories.) A Florida native, she’s steeped in the state’s unique culture.Not that…
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