A family retreat can be derailed by a prowling panther, or by a sexual secret. In this atmospheric debut, a young Native girl investigates the mysterious disappearance of women from her tribes reservation. FLORIDA By Lauren Groff Riverhead Books, 36, 275 pages If you’ve ever driven across southern Florida from Miami to Naples, you probably took the 80-mile stretch of Interstate 75 known as. “I believe that stories are the most powerful weapons we have. In her thrilling new book, Lauren Groff brings the reader into a physical world that is at once domestic and wilda 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. “Fairy tales act as tiny inoculations against anxiety or terror: we are exposed to the worst scenarios … and, through the pluck and intelligence of the protagonist, we are carried into a better life than before,” she told the New Yorker. As Groff recently observed, the fairy tale is a survival tool, adapted to our specific predicaments. In that way, they are closer to the spirit of the Grimms than any faithful retelling. They are shaped by the desperate conditions of the girls’ lives. In Arcadia, stories out of the Brothers Grimm were splendidly well-wrought objects of admiration in “Dogs Go Wolf,” fairy tales are made out of dirt, grit, and blood. Myths and fairy tales have preoccupied Groff since The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia, but her use of them here feels harder and truer than anything that has come before. The Atlantic «Groff es una de las mejores escritoras de los Estados Unidos y sus historias premiadas siguen resonando mucho después de haberlas leído. (Washington Post) In her thrilling new book, Lauren Groff brings the reader into a physical world that is at once domestic and wilda place where the hazards of the natural world lie waiting to. One panicked telling of Hansel and Gretel substitutes blue aquarium pebbles for breadcrumbs.

Lacking food and pursued by a bad man, the sisters survive on stories.

Florida by Lauren Groff