Florida

Stories that explore “home” in the most visceral sense. (People living in your crawlspace … a young woman who lives in a station wagon … a tent city… a French farmhouse…) ✅

Stories about women who host complex and interesting inner lives while having to reduce themselves to the simplicities of whatever is on trend at the moment … ✅

Stories about women who find themselves living somewhere they’d perhaps rather not be … ✅

A story about a woman who “buries her failures in this, as she buries all her failures, in reading…” ✅

A collection of stories mostly centered on women but would nonetheless definitely *not* be described as “women’s literature” (ugh) ✅

(Are these stories also cleverly about the natural world and the climate? ✅)

Is this why I found the 11 stories in Lauren Groff’s Florida so fascinating? (✅✅✅✅✅)

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