

Sunshine State
Essays
Author: Sarah Gerard
Narrator: Madeleine Maby
Unabridged: 10 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 04/11/2017
Author: Sarah Gerard
Narrator: Madeleine Maby
Unabridged: 10 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 04/11/2017
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.
"Our friendship was a sticky web. Our friendship was a black box. Our friendship was a swamp full of cottonmouths". Sunshine State by Sarah Gerard I really enjoyed this. I actually read it while down in Florida where I frequently vacation. It is a collection of essays and short stories. I will be hon......more
I read this book because I'm also writing about place. I think it's incredibly challenging to write a researched piece while sustaining a clear, engaging personal narrative. Gerard struggles here. Some of these essays read like a dissertation. The research goes on for pages and we lose Gerard's voic......more
I wanted badly to like this book. I did not. Part of the problem is that it was described as a new take on the state of Florida. The writing of the first essay, BFF, was engaging and sharp, and the product of a critical mind—but it had nothing to do with Florida other than being tangentially set ther......more
An eclectic essay collection that touches on topics ranging from friendship to homelessness to the environment. Sarah Gerard's strongest essays, such as "BFF" and "Rabbit", explore intimate emotions like loss and jealousy with vulnerability and detail. Some of her pieces that looked outward did not......more
[URL not allowed] my blog “Every day. Bob’s parent’s sued people- the city, other motorists, etc.- for a living.” Essays, memoir, environmental… all these things make up this collection. BFF is a fantastic choice to start the book. It’s a raw, brutal bloodletting on friendship.......more