Lauren Groff knows dread.
This is Groffs trademark approach to storytelling, and its even more prominent inFlorida, her second story collection.
Only now, the disasters on the horizon are more literal: hurricanes, snake bites, climate change.
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But shes almost too dialed-in here.Floridacenters on discontented women linked by the swampy peninsula where they all have history.
Youre helpless to the power the sheer virtuosity of Groffs evocative prose.
But in this first section and what follows, theres a sneaking redundancy, too.
WhileFloridas landscape is never less than strikingly realized, its many inhabitants could use more of that depth.
Even in Florida, theres more to life than dread.B
