![]() She was too much in love - never mind that it was with her brother’s wife Jessa-Lynn was loved fiercely in return. Jessa-Lynn Morton, Arnett’s narrator, never left. “I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror,” Carson McCullers once wrote. They have created a literature full of mirages and (actual) sinkholes, poised on the hazy borders between man and nature, ripeness and rot, tragedy and gag.Īnd life and death, in the case of Kristen Arnett’s “Mostly Dead Things,” an irresistible first novel set in the hard sunshine and “juicy green” of Central Florida, featuring a family of taxidermists, suicides and ruthless intimacies. What other state so reliably produces such rowdy, uninhibited imaginations? Hurston, Kelly Link, Karen Russell, Alissa Nutting, Laura van den Berg, Jennine Capó Crucet. ![]() Zora Neale Hurston famously wrote of the “ground so rich that everything went wild” - not least the writers themselves. “Eden of dangerous things,” the novelist Lauren Groff once described Florida. ![]()
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