nprbooks:“Florida in the summer is a slow hot drowning.” That’s one way Lauren G
nprbooks: “Florida in the summer is a slow hot drowning.” That’s one way Lauren Groff describes the state in her new collection of short stories. In another part of the book, she calls Florida “a damp, dense tangle. An Eden of dangerous things.” Why Florida? “I’ve lived here for 12 years and it’s still so alien and fecund and steamy and strange to me,” she says. “Reptilian, dangerous, teeming — I mean, there are so many things that you could call Florida.” Check out her excellent conversation with our own Ari Shapiro here – and find Jason Sheehan’s review here.– Petra -- source link