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THROUGH THE GROVES
A richly evocative coming-of-age memoir set in the rapidly changing Florida groves of the 1960s by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.
Anne Hull grew up in the fragrant isolation of rural central Florida, barefoot half the time and running through the groves her father's family had worked for generations. The ground trembled from the vibrations of bulldozers and jackhammers clearing land for Walt Disney World. Look now, her father told her as they rode through the mossy landscape together. It will all be gone. But the real threat was at home, where Hull was pulled between her idealistic but self-destructive father and her mother, a glamorous misfit from Brooklyn struggling with her own aspirations. In their bedroom closet, they kept a typewriter, a liquor bottle, and a gun. All the while, Hull felt the pressures of girlhood closing in. A misfit herself, she dreamed of becoming a traveling salesman who ate in motel coffee shops, accompanied by her baton-twirling babysitter in white boots. As her sexual identity took shape, Hull knew the place she loved would never love her back and began plotting her escape.
Here, Hull captures it allthe smells and sounds of a disappearing way of life, the secret rituals and rhythms of a doomed family, the casual racism of the rural south in the 1960s, and the suffocating expectations placed on girls and women. Vividly atmospheric and haunting, Through the Groves will speak to anyone who's ever left home to cut a path of their own.
Anne Hull is a journalist and Pulitzer Prize winning reporter who spent nearly two decades at the Washington Post. She's a recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Medal and has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist several times. She has written for The New Yorker magazine and taught journalism as a visiting professor at Princeton University. Born in Plant City, Florida, Hull attended Florida State University and worked as a reporter for the Tampa Bay Times. She lives in Washington, D.C.
Anne Hull grew up in the fragrant isolation of rural central Florida, barefoot half the time and running through the groves her father's family had worked for generations. The ground trembled from the vibrations of bulldozers and jackhammers clearing land for Walt Disney World. Look now, her father told her as they rode through the mossy landscape together. It will all be gone. But the real threat was at home, where Hull was pulled between her idealistic but self-destructive father and her mother, a glamorous misfit from Brooklyn struggling with her own aspirations. In their bedroom closet, they kept a typewriter, a liquor bottle, and a gun. All the while, Hull felt the pressures of girlhood closing in. A misfit herself, she dreamed of becoming a traveling salesman who ate in motel coffee shops, accompanied by her baton-twirling babysitter in white boots. As her sexual identity took shape, Hull knew the place she loved would never love her back and began plotting her escape.
Here, Hull captures it allthe smells and sounds of a disappearing way of life, the secret rituals and rhythms of a doomed family, the casual racism of the rural south in the 1960s, and the suffocating expectations placed on girls and women. Vividly atmospheric and haunting, Through the Groves will speak to anyone who's ever left home to cut a path of their own.
Anne Hull is a journalist and Pulitzer Prize winning reporter who spent nearly two decades at the Washington Post. She's a recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Medal and has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist several times. She has written for The New Yorker magazine and taught journalism as a visiting professor at Princeton University. Born in Plant City, Florida, Hull attended Florida State University and worked as a reporter for the Tampa Bay Times. She lives in Washington, D.C.
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Published 2023-06-01 by Henry Holt |