Grace Flahive was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. She studied English literature at McGill University in Montreal before moving to London, UK, in 2014, where she’s lived ever since.
Palm Meridian is her debut novel.
At Lit Hub she tagged five essential books about Florida (if you’re a Canadian writing a novel about Orlando). One title on the list:
Lauren Groff, FloridaRead about another entry on the list.
Some books are books. Other books are places. More than any story collection I’ve read in my life, Lauren Groff’s Florida feels like tearingthrough the page and stepping into a fully realized portrait of the state, living and breathing and dangled with Spanish moss, as panthers pass through the shadows. In “The Midnight Zone,” a mother staying in a remote cabin with her two young boys falls from a stool and hits her head and finds herself traveling outside of her body, amongst the thick of the trees. In “Eyewall,” a woman hunkers down as a hurricane slams her home, and when the storm passes, a miracle is revealed: a single, intact chicken egg sits, gleaming, where the front steps had been.
These stories are rich, at times hallucinogenic, and unforgettable.
--Marshal Zeringue
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