We Can't Help It If We're from Florida: New Stories from a Sinking Peninsula

"As hot and wild and dangerous as our beloved (or is it bedeviled?) state itself." -- Lauren Groff author of "Fates & Furies" "As weird and funny and beautiful and unnerving as you might expect from some of our states best writers."--Karen Russell author of "Swamplandia!" Florida is more than just fodder for hard-boiled crime novels and zany farces. This anthology of new stories and essays challenges a star-studded line up of current and former Floridians to write about the state through a literary lens though not without the requisite weirdness. The Florida within this book contains: lightning oil spills road rage a lizard tied to a balloon swimmers sleepwalkers characters that love Florida characters that hate Florida and at least three sinkholes.Anthology contributors: Lindsay Hunter Kevin Moffett Lidia Yuknavitch Jeff Parker Laura van den Berg Sarah Gerard Jaquira Daz Alissa Nutting Kristen Arnett Sohrab Homi Fracis Derrick Austin John Brandon Jason Ockert Michael J. Seidlinger Racquel Henry Nathan Deuel Asha Dore Amy Parker John Henry Fleming