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Zusatztext "Armed with a mesmerizing breadth of empathy and a rare! hi-res emotional intuition! Sarah Gerard's essays lead us forward through decades of her observation of our world! along the way unpacking everything from religion to economics! desire to aspiration! grief to the very grit of what seems to make a person tick. It's rare to find a voice you can come to believe in so quickly and completely! like an old friend's! and one whose very spirit makes the world seem that much more bearable! more true. Here is something to believe in." Informationen zum Autor Sarah Gerard is the author of the essay collection Sunshine State , which was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, and the novel Binary Star , which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Her short stories, essays, interviews, and criticism have appeared in the New York Times, T Magazine, Granta, The Baffler , Vice, and the anthologies Tampa Noir , We Can’t Help it if We’re From Florida , and One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism . She lives in New York City with her true love, the writer Patrick Cottrell. Find her at Sarah-Gerard.com. Klappentext Sarah Gerard follows her breakout novel, Binary Star , with the dynamic essay collection Sunshine State , which explores Florida as a microcosm of the most pressing economic and environmental perils haunting our society. Zusammenfassung Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay • F inalist for the Southern Book Prize A New York Times Critics’ Best Books of the Year • An NPR Best Book of the Year • A NYLON Best Nonfiction Book of the Year • A Buzzfeed Best Nonfiction Book of the Year • An Entrophy Magazine Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year • A Brooklyn Rail Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year • A Baltimore Beat Best Book of the Year A Paris Review Staff Pick • A Chicago Tribune Exciting Book for 2017 • A Rolling Stone Culture Index Reccomendation • A Buzzfeed Most Exciting Book for 2017 • A The Millions Great 2017 Book Preview Pick • A Huffington Post 2017 Preview Pick • A NYLON Best 10 Books of the Month • A Lit Hub 15 Books to Read This Month A Poets & Writers New and Noteworth Selection • A PW Top 10 Spring Pick in Essays & Literary Criticism • An Emma Straub Reccomendation on PBS “One of the themes of ‘Sunshine State,’ Sarah Gerard’s striking book of essays, is how Florida can unmoor you and make you reach for shoddy, off-the-shelf solutions to your psychic unease…. The first essay is a knockout, a lurid red heart wrapped in barbed wire.... This essay draws blood.” — Dwight Garner, New York Times "Unflinchingly candid memoir bolstered by thoughtfully researched history…. A nuanced and subtly intimate mosaic… her writing, lucid yet atmospheric, takes on a timeless ebb and flow.” — Jason Heller, NPR.org "Stunning." — Rolling Stone “These large-hearted, meticulous essays offer an uncanny x-ray of our national psyche... showing us both the grand beauty of our American dreams and the heartbreaking devastation they wreak.” — Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You Sarah Gerard follows her breakout novel, Binary Star, with the dynamic essay collection Sunshine State, which explores Florida as a microcosm of the most pressing economic and environmental perils haunting our society. In the collection’s title essay, Gerard volunteers at the Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary, a world renowned bird refuge. There she meets its founder, who once modeled with a pelican on his arm for a Dewar’s Scotch campaign but has since declined into a pit of fraud and madness. He becomes our embezzling protagonist whose tales about the birds he “...
