The universally-acclaimed return of the New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies .
Startling, precise, and affecting, Florida is a magnificent achievement..
With shocking accuracy and effect, she pinpoints the moments and decisions and connections behind human pleasure and pain, hope and despair, love and fury--the moments that make us alive.
Groff transports the reader, then jolts us alert with a crackle of wit, a wave of sadness, a flash of cruelty, as she writes about loneliness, rage, family, and the passage of time.
The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Florida--its landscape, climate, history, and state of mind--becomes its gravitational center: an energy, a mood, as much as a place of residence.
Among those navigating this place are a resourceful pair of abandoned sisters; a lonely boy, grown up; a restless, childless couple, a searching, homeless woman; and an unforgettable, recurring character--a steely and conflicted wife and mother.
A family retreat can be derailed by a prowling panther, or by a sexual secret. - NPR\'s Fresh Air In her thrilling new book, Lauren Groff brings the reader into a physical world that is at once domestic and wild--a place where the hazards of the natural world lie waiting to pounce, yet the greatest threats and mysteries are still of an emotional, psychological nature. ( Washington Post ) Groff\'s gifts as a writer just keep soaring higher and higher.
Florida is a superlative book ( Boston Globe ), gorgeously weird and limber ( New Yorker ), frequently funny ( San Francisco Chronicle ), brooding, inventive and often moving (NPR Fresh Air) -- as Groff is recognized as Florida\'s unofficial poet laureate, as Joan Didion was for California.
In Lauren Groff\'s Florida , the hot sun shines, but a wild darkness lurks.
The universally-acclaimed return of the New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies
