Florida

Lauren Groff

eBook - 2018

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZEONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARFrom the universally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies, Matrix, and The Vaster WildsFlorida is a "superlative" book (Boston Globe), "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." (Washington Post) 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 myst...eries are still of an emotional, psychological nature. A family retreat can be derailed by a prowling panther, or by a sexual secret. Among those navigating this place are a... more