![]() A few years turned into a family, and they have since raised two boys, now nine and seven, and a dog, in the state. ![]() Her husband, Clay Kallman, is from Florida and they moved to swampy, subtropical Gainesville so he could take over the family real estate business. Groff, who in 2017 was named by Granta Magazine as one of the best young American novelists, was only meant to be a temporary resident of Florida. You have to have something to fight against and I fought against this state very hard and I'm still fighting on a daily basis." But it became almost my opponent in a way and in order to write fiction you have to be oppositional. "I wanted to write about serious things and Florida was not serious. "At first I was really mad at myself for writing about Florida," Groff says over Skype, where she sits in front of a crammed bookshelf (she is known to read some 300 books a year and is currently embarking on a project to reread all of the works of the Bronte sisters). ![]() A sense of dread pervades many of the stories in Groff's new collection Florida. ![]()
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