Sunshine State: 2/5 Stars A collection of essays ostensibly about Florida by Sarah Gerard, known for her previous novel Binary Star. Most reviewers (or at least the ones less impressed by this book) seem to land on the idea that the biographical essays are strong while the others are not. I think I fall in the other direction. The book is made of two-three kinds of essays: autobiographical/memoir pieces that range from quite impressionistic and meditative to more story-driven and then nonfiction profile pieces that also […]
I’ll begin our story with that afternoon, we hadn’t spoken for a year…
Sunshine State by Sarah Gerard
Wit's End by Karen Joy Fowler
The Warmest December by Bernice McFadden
Ordinary Light by Tracy K Smith
Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler
Unfinished Business by Vivian Gornick
Thick and Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Rosa Parks In her own Words by Susan Reyburn
