Description: In this book, Rachel Knox weaves a memoir of growing up in Florida alongside cultural reflections of the state, digging into the complex truths of what it's like to be from a "wild" place--and questioning who gets to decide what that means.
Brief description:
Rachel
Knox is a writer
born and raised in Tampa Bay. She teaches writing at the University of South
Florida and is a bookseller at Tombolo Books in St. Petersburg.
Review Quotes:
"You don't have to be from Florida, or even want to go there, to be moved by this book. You just have to have a hometown and know what it feels like to leave it, only to discover it'll never leave you."--Southern Bookseller Review