Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayA New York Times Critics\' Best Books of the Year - An NPR Best Book of the Year - A NYLON Best Nonfiction Book of the Year - A Buzzfeed Best Nonfiction Book of the Year - An Entrophy Magazine Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year - A Brooklyn Rail Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year - A Baltimore Beat Best Book of the YearA Paris Review Staff Pick - A Chicago Tribune Exciting Book for 2017 - A Rolling Stone Culture Index Reccomendation - A Buzzfeed Most Exciting Book for 2017 - A The Millions Great 2017 Book Preview Pick - A Huffington Post 2017 Preview Pick - A NYLON Best 10 Books of the Month - A Lit Hub 15 Books to Read This Month A Poets & Writers New and Noteworth Selection - A PW Top 10 Spring Pick in Essays & Literary Criticism - An Emma Straub Reccomendation on PBSOne of the themes of \'Sunshine State, \' Sarah Gerard\'s striking book of essays, is how Florida can unmoor you and make you reach for shoddy, off-the-shelf solutions to your psychic unease....
An account of intimate female friendship pivots mid.
Gerard\'s personal stories are no less eerie or poignant: An essay that begins as a look at Gerard\'s first relationship becomes a heart-wrenching exploration of acquaintance rape and consent.
He becomes our embezzling protagonist whose tales about the birds he rescues never quite add up.
There she meets its founder, who once modeled with a pelican on his arm for a Dewar\'s Scotch campaign but has since declined into a pit of fraud and madness. -- Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You Sarah Gerard follows her breakout novel, Binary Star, with the dynamic essay collection Sunshine State, which explores Florida as a microcosm of the most pressing economic and environmental perils haunting our society.
In the collection\'s title essay, Gerard volunteers at the Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary, a world renowned bird refuge. showing us both the grand beauty of our American dreams and the heartbreaking devastation they wreak. -- Rolling StoneThese large-hearted, meticulous Essays offer an uncanny x-ray of our national psyche... -- Jason Heller, NPR.orgStunning. her writing, lucid yet atmospheric, takes on a timeless ebb and flow.
A nuanced and subtly intimate mosaic... -- Dwight Garner, New York Times Unflinchingly candid memoir bolstered by thoughtfully researched history....
This essay draws blood.
The first essay is a knockout, a lurid red heart wrapped in barbed wire....
Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayA New York Times Critics\' Best Books of the Year - An NPR Best Book of the Year - A NYLON Best Nonfiction Book of the Year - A Buzzfeed Best Nonfiction Book of the Year - An Entrophy Magazine Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year - A Brooklyn Rail Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year - A Baltimore Beat Best Book of the YearA Paris Review Staff Pick - A Chicago Tribune Exciting Book for 2017 - A Rolling Stone Culture Index Reccomendation - A Buzzfeed Most Exciting Book for 2017 - A The Millions Great 2017 Book Preview Pick - A Huffington Post 2017 Preview Pick - A NYLON Best 10 Books of the Month - A Lit Hub 15 Books to Read This Month A Poets & Writers New and Noteworth Selection - A PW Top 10 Spring Pick in Essays & Literary Criticism - An Emma Straub Reccomendation on PBSOne of the themes of \'Sunshine State, \' Sarah Gerard\'s striking book of essays, is how Florida can unmoor you and make you reach for shoddy, off-the-shelf solutions to your psychic unease...
