I had mixed feelings about Groff’s well-received earlier
novel, Fates and furies, as I do
about this new collection of short stories.
In both, Florida is as much a character as a place, and after reading
this collection full of snakes and swamps and creepy characters, her Florida is
not a place I want to visit (well, actually, I don’t want to visit the real Florida
either….). The stories are very good,
and the book was a National Book Award contender this year (as was Fates and furies), but I still don’t
really “enjoy” them. Her subject matter
always seems a bit overwrought. 275 pp.
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