Florida

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 place of residence. Groff transports the reader, then jolts us alert with a crackle of wit, a wave of sadness, a flash of cruelty, as she writes about loneliness, rage, family, and the passage of time. With shocking accuracy and effect, she pinpoints the moments and decisions and connections behind human pleasure and pain, hope and despair, love and fury—the moments that make us alive.

Povestile din aceasta colectie se intind pe personaje, orase, decenii, chiar secole, dar Florida - peisajul, clima, istoria si starea sufleteasca - devine centrul sau gravitational: o energie, o stare de spirit, la fel ca un loc de resedinta. Groff transporta cititorul, apoi ne zguduie alerta cu un trosnet de inteligenta, un val de tristete, un fulger de cruzime, in timp ce scrie despre singuratate, furie, familie si trecerea timpului.