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    (By Erin Langner)

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    Author Erin Langner
    “Book Descriptions: As an art critic and museum staffer, Erin Langner was skeptical of what she would find when she visited the Las Vegas Strip for the first time in the mid-2000s. To her surprise, she returned whenever the opportunity arose, seeking to understand her attraction to this "escape" destination—and the personal histories it conjured. The architecture of the Mirage casino surfaced the vacations to Florida that bandaged her grieving family together in the wake of her mother’s death. An encounter with a fake Venus de Milo during a bachelorette party shed light on her identity construction as a woman. An impersonator show evoked the rituals we create as we navigate loss. When read together, the essays of 'Souvenirs from Paradise' become a guide to holding fantasy and reality together in one glimpse, in order to better understand our impulses and ourselves.”

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