HOME View All Genre

Book

Audiobook

GENRES 🌙 Dark

Florida - Lauren Groff

By Lauren Groff

Release Date: 2018-06-05

Genre: Fiction & Literature

4 (265 ratings)
Read Download
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE

ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

From the universally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies, Matrix, and the instant New York Times bestseller Brawler

Florida 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 mysteries 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 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.

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. 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. 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. Startling, precise, and affecting, Florida is a magnificent achievement.

Florida - Lauren Groff

By Lauren Groff

Release Date: 2018-06-05

Genre: Fiction & Literature

4 (265 ratings)
Read Download
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE

ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

From the universally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies, Matrix, and the instant New York Times bestseller Brawler

Florida 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 mysteries 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 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.

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. 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. 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. Startling, precise, and affecting, Florida is a magnificent achievement.

More by Lauren Groff

Fates and Furies

Matrix

Florida

The Vaster Wilds

Arcadia

The Monsters of Templeton

Brawler

The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story

The Best American Short Stories 2024

The Best Short Stories 2023

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013

Delicate Edible Birds

Where the Light Falls: Selected Stories of Nancy Hale

The Woman Who Borrowed Memories

Woman Running in the Mountains

En manos de las furias

Florida

Matrix

Destinos e fĂșrias

Arcadia

Mansfield Park

Wyspa kobiet

La Bagarre

Awanturnica

Matrix

Dzikie bezkresy

Matrix (edizione italiana)

Dzikie bezkresy

Matrix

Les Furies

SkĂŠbne og hĂŠvn

Les Terres indomptées

La tierra mĂĄs salvaje

Nel vasto mondo selvaggio

Florida

Fuga

Matrix

Les terres indomptées

Floride

Matrix

Fatum i furia

Florida

Floryda

Florida

Arcadia

Florida

Wyspa kobiet

Fuga

A Room of One's Own

Skjebne og Raseri

Related Articles