Lauren Groff

Året är 1158 och hennes förtvivlan är lika intensiv som det tunga regnet, som smutsen och den överväldigande stanken av ruttnande kött och själar.

At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but behind closed doors things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed.

The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Florida – its landscape, climate, history, and state of mind – becomes its gravitational centre: an energy, a mood, as much as a place of residence