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I really can understand where people would really like...enjoy this novel of short stories. Unfortunately and overall it didn’t resonate with me.

The difficulty was trying to pinpoint and explain why I did not enjoy this book. It’s very well written. The imagery is exceptional. Each story has a captivating beginning that draws you in...but I’m my opinion there are no true conclusions. Not sure if that was intentional...or I just didn’t get it...or the author was simply leaving it up to the reader to imagine what happened.

I kept hoping the next story would be wonderful. Never happened...not once. I guess if I had to summarize my apathetic opinion about the book it’s just that I was looking for definitive ending to each story.

Sorry...and in “conclusion” almost like a break up line. It’s not you...it’s me.


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Florida Lauren Groff 9781594634512 Books Reviews

I'm a huge fan of Lauren Groff. And her current short story collection, FLORIDA, is outstanding. This is a deep dive into Florida's wonder and culture. Among many characters there are snakes, hurricanes, gators, and Florida's terrain and curiosities that make for interesting questions, including the effects of climate change. Chilling, haunting, mind-bending, and heartfelt. As in her other work, her prose is so exact; poetic and visceral all kinds of feels as you read.
I’m not exactly a Lauren Groff evangelist, having been hit or miss with her novels, but this short story collection is DAMN GOOD.

Maybe this is my preferred form for her writing. Her showy prose isn’t as distracting to me in the short story format in fact, I kind of love it.

The narratives in this collection share some commonalities beyond just location the characters (often women) each endure calamities both external and internal. There’s a pervasive foreboding throughout a teetering on the edge of something dark and wild, a doomed sense of quiet desperation ready to erupt. Much like Florida itself, there are unseen dangers lurking everywhere.

For a short story collection to be so cohesive and consistently fulfilling is an achievement in and of itself. I felt melancholy turning the final page on these characters, leaving them to their rage and isolation and longing—those unsavory feelings that we all store deep within.
To start with this is an extremely well written piece. The author can really turn a beautiful phrase. The imagery is very vivid in each of the stories and you really get a sense of "place." The down side to that is that the jump from story to story is very jarring. There are some unifying themes in the stories, but it takes a minute when you start the next one to figure out what's going on. A lot of the stories were also just "middles," and felt out of context. In terms of the subject matter - it is dreary no doubt about that. There is a palpable sadness that runs through the entire book that becomes oppressive.
Lauren Groff is an artist. But instead of a paintbrush she uses words, and she does it with such amazing talent that those disparate syllables and sentences come together to create daring, brilliant images of Florida (and other places) in this collection of imaginative and often heartbreaking short stories. Because of her word artistry I saw the black snakes slithering in the swampy land. I could almost touch the Spanish moss hanging from the trees in dense clusters. I feared the alligators beneath the placid, shimmering water. I scratched at nonexistent mosquito bites. I felt the force of a hurricane's ravaging winds and dangerous, destructive floods.

Each story is about both the external and the internal. The external is the raw brutality of nature in this swampy state. The internal is the human heart—be it good or evil, happy or enraged, beautiful or ugly. This is as much a story about the human state as it is the sunshine state.

But be forewarned Each of these stories is intense, much like little emotional explosions—so much so that I could only read one at a time and then had to close the book for a while before starting the next one. And that speaks to the power of the writing and the subsequent need for contemplation.
During a recent visit, Lauren Groff shared that when her husband proposed moving back to his native Florida, she, appalled, made him sign a contract that they would leave in 10 years years. That was more than 12 years ago. In the intervening years, she has come to love the state and all its weirdness, and even gave it the top acknowledgement for this, her excellent book of short stories. She knows she is a short story writer, having entered Amherst as an aspiring poet and having the intelligence to recognize that wasn't the path for her. She admits her forays into novels as an aberration (successful though those sidesteps may be), which explains why her stories are so rich, so immersive, and impossible to read in one gulp. They must be paced out. I've said in other reviews that when collections of short stories are good, they are hard work for a reader since it is like reading an entire shelf of well thought-out books, requiring more effort than say a 300 page novel.

What each story has in common here is someone in difficulty, either women or children, usually in danger from forces of nature rather than from another human being. That's what gives these stories their originality -- the unpredictability, impersonality and power behind forces which one cannot control. There is much reference to literature that Groff holds dear (when asked, she responded that she read material she loved multiple times, e.g., she had read the first volume of Proust's Remembrance of Time Past at least 8 times but hadn't progressed to the other volumes), and one story delves into the personality of Guy de Maupassant. A very impressive collection from a more than impressive writer.
I really can understand where people would really like...enjoy this novel of short stories. Unfortunately and overall it didn’t resonate with me.

The difficulty was trying to pinpoint and explain why I did not enjoy this book. It’s very well written. The imagery is exceptional. Each story has a captivating beginning that draws you in...but I’m my opinion there are no true conclusions. Not sure if that was intentional...or I just didn’t get it...or the author was simply leaving it up to the reader to imagine what happened.

I kept hoping the next story would be wonderful. Never happened...not once. I guess if I had to summarize my apathetic opinion about the book it’s just that I was looking for definitive ending to each story.

Sorry...and in “conclusion” almost like a break up line. It’s not you...it’s me.