![]() The opening story is about a woman who takes to walking at night to calm her recently-acquired propensity for yelling. It's a book about people - often women and mothers, but not always - becoming unmoored and losing their way. Two abandoned children fight against starvation. A stressed mother of two boys is injured in a literal cabin in the woods. A snake devotee meets his end in the wilderness, at the hands of his life's passion. The natural wonders and dangers of Florida play into almost all these stories. Small, hard-hitting snippets of lives that still make you feel emotionally-drained, but also thoughtful and satisfied. Reading her full-length novel was a chore, but for me at least, Groff seems born to write short stories. Groff's writing style is dense and wordy, metaphorical and poetic and - sometimes - exhausting. I have to say I enjoyed Florida so much more than Fates and Furies. Snakes, gators, swamps and storms form the backdrop of these exquisitely human stories. ![]() The truth might be moral, but it isn't always right. ![]()
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