Brawler

Praise for Brawler

“In the coiling dread and frank feminism of her work, this incandescent author makes clear with her newest fiction why she won the 2022 Joyce Carol Oates Prize. This audacious collection surprises readers with the vivid lives few of us notice.”—Kirkus (starred)

“A gorgeous collection about families transformed by desperate circumstances…Groff sketches her characters with scalpel-like precision…Each of these heartbreaking tales will linger in the reader’s mind.” —Publishers Weekly (starred)

“Thrillingly complex, wickedly strong girls and women populate the worlds of Groff’s third story collection. In total command of her characters’ nuances and the gray space they find themselves in, Groff shares brief, cryptic yet revealing notes about each story at book’s end, for the cherry on top.” —Booklist (starred)



Praise for Florida

“Groff is a great storyteller. . . . Florida is restorative fiction for these urgent times. Its final gestures, even the most ominous . . . lean toward love and the promise of good people, in not just this state but the world.” —The New York Times

“Groff’s language is, as always, gorgeous and precise. Her ability to map the inner contours of characters who seem to exist entirely in extremis—and, almost entirely, within a fragile shell of feigned competence and normalcy—is remarkable.” —NPR

“Groff’s incomparable prose pulsates with peril; its beauty, like that of the titular state itself, lies in a certain wild lushness.” —Financial Times

“Groff’s writing is marvelous, her insights keen, each story a glittering, encrusted treasure hauled from the deep.” —The Economist

“[Groff] is one of the best writers in the United States, and her prizewinning stories reverberate long after they are read. ” —Los Angeles Review of Books