Florida
Lauren Groff · 2018
Story Prize winner, 2018. Groff's stories of Florida (its beauty and its rot, its women surviving and failing, its weather as moral condition) announced a new major voice in American short fiction. Where her novels are vast, these stories are concentrated and venomous.
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Eleven stories, and an anxious writer-mother who is plainly the same woman keeps surfacing across the collection, fretting about hurricanes, snakes, and her sons. The menace is real but it is the only register: dread opens every story, dread closes it, nothing resolves because resolution would break the spell. Read three in a row and you can predict the weather.
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