Lauren Groff

Florida

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New York Times bestseller Lauren Groff returns with an electric collection of stories as propulsive and consuming as her novel Fates and Furies.

Lauren Groff is one of the most important authors writing today, and Florida — her first new book since her “clear the ground triumph”* Fates and Furies — is an electrifying, expanding read.
Over a decade ago, Groff moved to her adopted home state of Florida. 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. Storms, snakes, and sinkholes lurk at the edge of everyday life, but the greater threats and mysteries are of a human, emotional, and psychological nature.
In «The Midnight Zone," a woman finds herself injured and isolated in a confined space with her children, danger literally prowling outside the door, and must confront what…
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  • Cristina Salazarhas quoted5 years ago
    It is terribly true, even if the truth does not comfort, that if you look at the moon for long enough night after night, as I have, you will see that the old cartoons are correct, that the moon is, in fact, laughing. But it is not laughing at us, we lonely humans, who are far too small and our lives far too fleeting for it to give us any notice at all.
  • Cristina Salazarhas quoted5 years ago
    eard that they have started building a nest again, though how they can bear it after all they’ve lost I do not know.
  • Cristina Salazarhas quoted5 years ago
    these gorgeous changes that insist that not everything is decaying faster than we can love it.
    I walk on, and as the boy’s trottin

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