Florida -- Lauren Groff

<b>The universally-acclaimed return of the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Fates and Furies </i>and <i>Matrix.</i> <p/><b>In Lauren Groff's </b><i>Florida</i>, <b>the hot sun shines, but a wild darkness lurks. </b><i>Florida</i><b> is a superlative book (<i>Boston Globe</i>), gorgeously weird and limber (<i>New Yorker</i>), frequently funny (<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>), brooding, inventive and often moving (NPR Fresh Air) -- as Groff is recognized as Florida's unofficial poet laureate, as Joan Didion was for California. (<i>Washington Post</i>) </b><i> <p/></i>Groff's gifts as a writer just keep soaring higher and higher." <i>- NPR's Fresh Air</i></b> <p/>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. <p/>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 pla