Who recommended Florida?

2 people have recommended Florida in the interviews, articles and reading lists we track, including Barack Obama. Each name links to their full reading list.

Is Florida worth reading?

2 people we track recommend it. It is best for: a fiction writer revising a short-story collection about family tension — because you need concrete sentence-level examples of how to turn ordinary domestic detail into sustained unease while you rewrite scenes now.; an MFA student leading a close-reading seminar next week — because the book supplies short, image-dense passages that work well for line-by-line discussion of tone, diction, and ambiguous endings.; an acquisitions editor assembling a call for lyrical, voice-driven submissions — because you can use this book as a recent reference to calibrate what 'atmosphere-over-plot' voice sounds like while setting submission guidelines.. It may not suit: you'll likely put it down when the book's mood becomes unrelentingly uneasy and several stories close with ambiguity rather than resolution (that’s the main drop-off point).; annoying if you prefer plot-forward, plot-driven fiction — the emphasis is on language and tone, not tidy narrative arcs.; lose interest if you want light, comforting reading; repeated bleak or unsettling moments can feel emotionally heavy and occasionally repetitive..

What books are like Florida?

Readers of Florida also turn to The Republic, Everything I Never Told You and A Game of Thrones, based on the lists and recommenders these books share.

Florida by Lauren Groff: Recommended by 2 People

Name: Florida
Author: Lauren Groff

In Lauren Groff’s Florida, the hot sun shines, but a wild darkness lurks. In 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 fa...