When Janie Starks returns home, she seeks identity and independence as the small southern black community buzzes with gossip about the outcome of her affair with a younger man.
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Florida Fiction
Weird or profound, these books set in Florida demonstrate that in fiction, sometimes what's most important is the setting.
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- Stuck in a tumbledown Everglades shack with a nasty ex-boyfriend and an infant daughter, Jesse thinks she's found a way out: she's tripped over a long-lost treasure. Unfortunately, a bunch of bad guys are also looking for the treasure, even as…
- The quiet, remarkable lives of the tenants in a South Miami Beach apartment through the years permeate this haunting new novel.
- A collection of stories spanning centuries of time in mercurial Florida examines the decisions and connections behind life-changing events in characters ranging from two abandoned sisters to a conflicted family woman.
- The sins of the past come back to haunt Doc Ford and his old friend Tomlinson when people come looking for a cache of precious Spanish coins he "liberated" from a felonious treasure hunter.
- Follows the ups and downs of a dysfunctional Florida family in the 1990s.
- A hilarious novel of social and political intrigue, set against the glittering backdrop of Florida’s gold coast.
- This Pulitzer-Prize winning novel brilliantly dramatizes a strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
- The Bigtree children struggle to protect their Florida Everglades alligator-wrestling theme park from a sophisticated competitor after losing their parents.
- Engaged twentysomethings Cat and Todd are living the dream in an inherited Florida beach house. On the other coast, Cat's family deals with California's drought, heat wave, high winds, and rampaging fires. Extreme climate events and myriad…
- In his next over-the-top adventure, a fully vaccinated Serge A. Storms is finally ready to set out on a Florida road trip with some revelrous friends. Change of plans: they encounter a man on the run from the CIA, hired by the agency as a local…
- In 1971, Harley Mann revisits his childhood, recounting his family's move to Florida’s swamplands—mere miles away from what would become Disney World—to join a community of Shakers.
- Set in the near future, this hopeful story of survival and resilience follows Wanda—a luminous child born out of a devastating hurricane—as she navigates a rapidly changing world.
- Based on the true events of the Charlie Wall murder case. In 1955 Tampa, Florida, the bludgeoning death of mob boss Charlie Wall, The White Shadow, sets cops, reporters, and associates scrambling to discover the truth. But that is only the…
- Traces three generations of the MacIvey family, who settled in Florida in the mid-nineteenth century, and shows the family's ultimate effect on the state.
- Travis McGee is a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He's also a knight-errant who's wary of credit cards, retirement benefits, political parties, mortgages, and television. He only works when his cash runs out, and his…
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