South Florida Spin
by Virginia Aronson
ISBN: 978-1-934209-89-9
South Florida Spin is now available at the
New York Public Library!
Praise for South Florida Spin:
“Virginia Aronson’s characters are ethereal, world-hungry ghosts lost in the haze of youth, addiction, delusion and obsession. From the inlands to the beaches of Miami, American Suburbia has never looked so alien and so familiar before. She brings to the table the starkness of Bukowski, the post-modernism of (Ryu) Murakami, and Maugham’s innate sense of beauty within the human condition... Poetic and rhythmic like the steady beat of ocean waves, South Florida Spin floats through your senses. It is an epic journey...that will leave you breathless and stunned.”
--Jason McDonald, www.sequentialart.net
“You Remind Me of Me, Winter of the Songbird, What Would Jesus Drink?, Everything Must Go...are the engaging tales that outline this offbeat and entertaining collection of short stories in South Florida Spin, the debut fiction collection of Virginia Aronson--and what a debut she makes. Highly intriguing and entertaining from the first page to the last, Aronson will touch your heart and make you laugh all the same with her edgy yet authentic prose. Highly recommended to fiction collections everywhere.”
--Midwest Book Review
“Her stories capture the human condition through loves and losses, grief and heal-ing... Her post-modern style prose is almost hallucinogenic at times, mesmerizing her audience..."
--Reviewed by Mona Lisa Safai,
TCM Reviews
“Virginia Aronson is at the top of her game as she captures the experience of being a modern woman in South Florida Spin. Insightful, warm, and laugh-out-loud funny, these riveting short stories will be hard to put down for anyone interested in what makes contemporary relationships tick.”
--Arnold Arluke, PhD, Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University, and author of Just a Dog, Brute Force, and The Sacrifice
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Virginia Aronson is the author of 29 nonfiction books for both young and adult readers. Her poetry has appeared in dozens of literary journals. She lives in South Florida with her husband and son. South Florida Spin is her first fiction collection.
South Florida Spin is an offbeat collection of short stories that together weave an enduring image of the loves and losses of a modern American woman, a girl who ran as far as she could, and then kept running. Written in alluring, almost hallucinatory prose, South Florida Spin is also funny and sharp, edgy and authentic, provocative and ultimately life-affirming.
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