![]() Then in 2015 she won the Bard Fiction Prize, which came with a writing fellowship-and a house on the college’s vast, pastoral campus, a two-story duplex at the bottom of a small hill with a screened-in porch. “So I had all these hazy ideas,” she says, “but I didn’t really understand how they all fit together.” An Orlando native who’d done two book tours in close succession, van den Berg, who is now a Briggs-Copeland lecturer in English, had also started tracking the American tourist boom in Cuba after the United States lifted its travel ban. ![]() Van den Berg had been batting around a few ideas for a while, loose and abstract but promisingly fertile: the strange pull of solitary travel, the power of tourism to reshape cultures and economies, and the ways people talk about new places. The Third Hotel follows Clare, a young widow who takes a trip to Havana in the wake of her husband’s sudden death and then begins to see him everywhere. ![]() ![]() It wasn’t until after she moved into the haunted house that Laura van den Berg’s latest novel really started coming together. ![]()
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