I received a free copy of this book from Penguin Random House in exchange for an honest review.

Florida is a set of short stories which are all somehow linked to the US state of Florida. I found a majority of this collection of short stories quite gripping, and I really enjoyed the focus most of them had in the sense of home, and family, as well as place. Not all the books are physically set in Florida, some of them just focus on characters who grew up there but Florida plays a role in each story.

As someone who doesn’t t read a lot of short story collections, I enjoyed this one more than I thought I would and I liked most of the stories.I did find halfway through I lost some of my interest in the book but more along the lines of when I put it down, I wasn’t rushing to pick it back up which probably would have been different if this was a novel instead of short stories.

I do recommend this for people who like quieter short stories that focus on family life.