Tag: Harper Perennial

  • We Were Happy, Until We Were Told We Could Be Happier: Sarah Gerard’s SUNSHINE STATE

    We Were Happy, Until We Were Told We Could Be Happier: Sarah Gerard’s SUNSHINE STATE

    Counter to familiar ideas of Florida: spring break, the spectacle that is South Beach, and golfing old-timers, in Sunshine State, Sarah Gerard offers periphery, rather than underbelly or façade. Gerard, a Florida native with a fascinating past, examines the cultural phenomena that shaped her family’s story. She writes with insight and empathy, never once disparaging…

  • Five-and-Five: Okla Elliott’s 2012 List

    Five-and-Five: Okla Elliott’s 2012 List

    I love lists. I make them for any number of reasons. They help me organize my thoughts or review events, among a dozen other things, so when I was asked to compile a 2012 list for Heavy Feather Review, I accepted immediately. After I had compiled a little over half of this list, however, I…