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Florida
By Schutt, Christine
- ISBN
- 978-0-81015-150-5
- Publisher
- Evanston, Ill. : TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2004.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on October 15, 2003
Florida represents sunshine and promise to most people but not young Alice Fivey. After her father's drowning death (his car swerved off the road one spring day), her mother is institutionalized in a sanitorium, leaving Alice to spend her formative years with relatives and to make sense of the world on her own. Less a novel, Florida is a series of thumbnail vignettes laced with pain. Alice uses "Florida" much as a worrying stone, turning the s...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
