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

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