Florida

Florida
By:Lauren Groff
Published on 2018-06-05 by Penguin

FINALIST FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD The universally acclaimed return of the New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies. |Restorative fiction for these urgent times.| (The New York Times) |Outstanding.| (The Boston Globe) |Marvelous.| (The Economist) |Gorgeously weird and limber.| (The New Yorker) |Easily the year's best story collection.| (Vogue) |Groff's gifts as a writer just keep soaring higher and higher.” (NPR’s Fresh Air) 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.

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Do not you kind of wood (secretly, in the marrow of one's gut's happy druthers) for the nice ol'times of Goodreads (known then as GodFearingGoodlyReading.com) when all opinions were evenly plainspoken, merely functional, unpretentious, and -- especially otherwise -- dull, dull, dull? Do not you kind of hate when persons say'don't you believe this way or sense that way'in an effort to goad you both psychologically and grammatically in to accepting using them? In the language of ABBA: I actually do, I actually do, I do(, I actually do, I do). Properly, because the interwebs is a world in which days gone by stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the present (and with fetish porn), we are able to revisit days gone by in their inviolable presentness anytime we wish. Or at least until this website ultimately tanks. Consider (won't you?) Matt Nieberle's review of Macbeth in its entirety. I've bound it with a heavy string and pulled it here for the perusal. (Please recognize that many a sic are implied in the next reviews.) its actually complex and stupid! why cant we be examining like Romeo and Juliet?!?! at least that book is great! There you have it. Refreshingly, not a evaluation written in one of many witch's voices or alluding to Hillary and Statement Clinton or discussing the reviewer's first period. Merely a primal yell unleashed into the black wilderness of the cosmos.Yes, Mr. Nieberle is (probably) a teenager, but I admire his ability to strongarm the temptation to be clever or ironic. (Don't you?) He speaks the native language of the idk generation by having an economy and an understanding that renders his convictions all the more emphatic. Here's MICHAEL's overview of the same play. You may'know'MICHAEL; he is the'Problems Architect'at Goodreads. (A problematic title itself in that it implies he designs problems... which can be the case, for all I know.) 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