We Can't Help It If We're From Florida: New Stories from a Sinking Peninsula

Edited by Shane Hinton

“As hot and wild and dangerous as our beloved (or is it bedeviled?) state, itself.” – Lauren Groff, author of Fates & Furies

“As weird and funny and beautiful and unnerving as you might expect from some of our state's best writers." – Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!

Florida is more than just fodder for hard-boiled crime novels and zany farces. This anthology of new stories and essays challenges a star-studded line up of current and former Floridians to write about the state through a literary lens, though not without the requisite weirdness. The Florida within this book contains: lightning, oil spills, road rage, a lizard tied to a balloon, swimmers, sleepwalkers, characters that love Florida, characters that hate Florida, and at least three sinkholes.

Anthology contributors:
Lindsay Hunter
Kevin Moffett
Lidia Yuknavitch
Jeff Parker
Laura van den Berg
Sarah Gerard
Jaquira Díaz
Alissa Nutting
Kristen Arnett
Sohrab Homi Fracis
Derrick Austin
John Brandon
Jason Ockert
Michael J. Seidlinger
Racquel Henry
Nathan Deuel
Asha Dore
Amy Parker
John Henry Fleming