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Florida

**A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR**

**2018 National Book Awards Finalist**

In these vigorous stories, Lauren Groff brings her electric storytelling to a world in which storms, snakes and sinkholes lurk at the edge of everyday life, but the greater threats are of a human, emotional and psychological nature. Among those navigating it all are a resourceful pair of abandoned sisters; a lonely boy, grown up; a restless, childless couple; a searching, homeless woman; and an unforgettable conflicted wife and mother.

The stories in this collection span characters, towns, even centuries, but Florida — its landscape, climate, history and state of mind — becomes the gravitational centre. With shocking accuracy, Groff pinpoints the connections behind human pleasure and pain, hope and despair, love and fury — the moments that make us alive.

'Restorative fiction for these urgent times.' New York Times

‘A blistering collection ... lyrical and oblique.' Guardian

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 288
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781786090461
  • Release date
  • 2019