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Like Joan Didion, Marisa Silver finds metaphors for disconnection in Los Angeles's arid sprawl ("The New York Times Book Review"), and in "The God of War," Silver sets in the California desert an indelible novel of the end of childhood.
Marisa Silver made her fiction debut in The New Yorker when she appeared in the inaugural "Debut Fiction" issue. Her collection of stories, Babe in Paradise, was a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. Silver's work has been included in Best American Short Stories, and she is also the author of the novel No Direction Home. She lives in Los Angeles. Visit her on the Web at www.marisasilver.com.