{"product_id":"through-the-groves-a-memoir-paperback","title":"Through the Groves: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnne Hull\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eHypnotic and tender, this book reminds us that even if we leave our homes, our homes never leave us.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Oprah Daily\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[Hull] has that sly eye for sublime details, but also a killer instinct for tight storytelling.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarl Hiaasen, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA richly evocative coming-of-age memoir set in the Florida orange groves of the 1960s by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnne Hull grew up in rural Central Florida, barefoot half the time and running through the orange 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 outsider from Brooklyn struggling with her own aspirations. All the while, Hull felt the pressures of girlhood closing in. She dreamed of becoming a traveling salesman who ate in motel coffee shops, accompanied by her baton-twirling babysitter. As her sexual identity took shape, Hull knew the place she loved would never love her back and began plotting her escape. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere, Hull captures it all--the 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVividly atmospheric and haunting, \u003ci\u003eThrough the Groves\u003c\/i\u003e will speak to anyone who's ever left home to cut a path of their own.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Hull\u003c\/b\u003e is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who spent nearly two decades as a reporter at the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a fifth-generation Floridian who started her newspaper career at the \u003ci\u003eSt. Petersburg Times\u003c\/i\u003e (now \u003ci\u003eTampa Bay Times\u003c\/i\u003e). She lives in Washington, DC.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 7.94 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 25, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48722173624568,"sku":"9781250348203","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/BGQ6At5fZK9781250348203.webp?v=1780221025","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/through-the-groves-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}