![]() ![]() “ Florida,” Groff’s new collection of short stories, is headquartered in a “dense, damp tangle” of a state, “an Eden of dangerous things.” The husband-and-wife relationship is no longer a focus, though it factors in rather than eavesdropping on fates or furies, we hear the narrator of Genesis-sort of. “Fates and Furies” was hailed for its formal innovation and for its scathing dramatization of how profoundly we can get each other wrong. The vantages were wildly different divine voices (female and merciless) interjected in parentheses. It didn’t take long for “ Fates and Furies,” Lauren Groff’s third novel, to earn the title of 2015’s “ book of the year.” Spiky and mesmerizing, and a favorite of President Obama’s, the book examined a marriage, first from the husband’s perspective and then from the wife’s. ![]() The follow-up to her blockbuster novel “Fates and Furies,” Lauren Groff’s short-story collection “Florida” is a psychogeography that collapses the real and the imagined. ![]()
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