title: Trapped in the Magic Mirror: Shattering Illusions About Romance And Marriage
author:  Deborah B. Dunn 
description: Deborah B. Dunn is a licensed marital and family therapist in private practice, who has worked with women and their families in crisis for over twenty years. Her burden to help families has led her to start a nonprofit organization, Community in Crisis Inc. where she is presently the CEO. She is available for speaking engagements on any topic related to marriage and family, as well as community disaster response. Deborah and her husband, Rick, reside near Raleigh, North Carolina. They have two adult children.
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  Laura van den Berg’s gorgeous new book, _The Isle of Youth_ , explores the
  lives of women mired in secrecy and deception. From a newlywed caught in an
  inscrutable marriage, to private eyes working a baffling case in South
  Florida, to a teenager who assists her magician mother and steals from the
  audience, the characters in these bewitching stories are at once vulnerable
  and dangerous, bighearted and ruthless, and they will do what it takes to
  survive.
  
  
  Each tale is spun with elegant urgency, and the reader grows attached to the
  marginalized young women in these stories — women grappling with the choices
  they’ve made and searching for the clues to unlock their inner worlds. This is
  the work of a fearless writer whose stories feel both magical and mystical,
  earning her the title of “sorceress” from her readers. Be prepared to fall
  under her spell.
  
  
  An NPR Best Book of 2013.
  
  
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    * Laura van den Berg
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