Celebrated author Lauren Groff is coming to the ATL! Groff, a New York Times bestselling author of “Fates and Furies” is back with a new title.

She will promote her new book “Florida” at a ticketed event Friday, June 8, 218 in the city. Things get started at 7 p.m.

Come Hang Out With Author Lauren Groff In Atlanta

“Florida” will be an array of stories about the author’s home state. She will treat a live audience at the lovely Midtown Atlanta theater, SCADshow. A book signing of a first edition copy of “Florida” will follow.

A Cappella Books is the official bookseller for this event.

ABOUT THE BOOK

In her vigorous and moving new book, Lauren Groff brings her electric storytelling and intelligence to a world in which storms, snakes, and sinkholes lurk at the edge of everyday life, but the greater threats and mysteries are of a human, emotional, and psychological nature. Among those navigating it all are a resourceful pair of abandoned sisters; a lonely boy, grown up; a restless, childless couple, a searching, homeless woman; and an unforgettable, recurring character — a steely and conflicted wife and mother.

The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Florida — its landscape, climate, history, and state of mind — becomes its gravitational center: an energy, a mood, as much as a place of residence. Groff transports the reader, then jolts us alert with a crackle of wit, a wave of sadness, a flash of cruelty, as she writes about loneliness, rage, family, and the passage of time. With shocking accuracy and effect, she pinpoints the moments and decisions and connections behind human pleasure and pain, hope and despair, love and fury — the moments that make us alive. Startling, precise, and affecting, Florida is a magnificent achievement.

A Cappella Books is the official bookseller for this event.