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Boca Raton

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Boca Raton

By: Lauren Groff
Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg
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A mother’s latent fears rise as relentlessly as the Florida seas in a startling story of a planet, and an imagination, under pressure, by the New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies.

During an eco-friendly cleanup at the beach, Ange finds something horrifying in the brush. The sickening, heartbreaking evidence of an irreversibly changing earth triggers dread about the future for her daughter. But as reasoned worries slide into paranoia, reality itself begins to untether. For Ange, there may be no stepping back from the destructive darkness of her sleepless nights.

Lauren Groff’s Boca Raton is part of Warmer, a collection of seven visions of a conceivable tomorrow by today’s most thought-provoking authors. Alarming, inventive, intimate, and frightening, each story can be read, or listened to, in a single breathtaking sitting.

©2018 Lauren Groff (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological Short Story
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Pretty site this series, save 1 book, was made for elementary school classrooms. nothing insightful or interesting in most of them.

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Well this is more like what I expected when I downloaded the Warmer Collection... All the doom and gloom wrapped up in a short story that only leaves the reader hanging, without resolution (one of my pet peeves!) I guess we're going to hafta assume it all went to sh*t... And really there wasn't anything the narrator could've done to fix this...

Definitely not for me...

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it was hard to stay awake while driving listening to this! I'm sorry to say but most of these stories of the warmer collection have absolutely no Intrigue or decent plot. This one had me looking for my own personal sauna and lawn mower to lock the door so I could roast to death because that would be better than listening to this bullshit.

Boring! wanted a sauna/ lawn mower for myself!

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“Boca Raton” is another short story from the Warmer Collection. Then Warmer Collection are visions of a conceivable tomorrow by different literary authors. In this one, Lauren Groff writes her version. All short stories I’ve listened to in this series recognizes climate change. Groff places her story in Boca Raton Fl, and her protagonist, Ange, is a single sleep deprived working mother. She participated in an eco-friendly cleanup at her beach and learns more of the rising water levels and beach erosion. Her worry results in sleepless nights. She’s a librarian who is doing research for the university.

Because I’m a huge fan of Groff’s, I listened to it twice. The first time I was left with “confused puppy dog” face. The second time I listened, I understood a bit more about what she was trying to say(I think). In this case, sleepless nights and worry about our environment leads to a woman’s professional nightmare.

Not one of the better in the series

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Don't listen to this unless you're interested in watching the slow-moving trainwreck of the heroine's mental health as she agonizes over the implications of climate change in Florida. The narration was excellent, but the story was a downer.

Well-Written But Depressing

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The narrator was very good! The story was convoluted and weird. Thats all I can say!

Not what I expected!

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It was short, but very confusing to me. Narration was good, but I was so lost.

Confusing

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There was really no hope in this book. I was a real downer from beginning to end

Ok if you like doomsday type books.

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An environmental story that every human should read. Our responsibility to future generations is told in this very creative story about loss and hope. It’s about searching for
a way to cleanse our souls...

Cleansing Oneself

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Confusing and totally impossible to follow. The narration was the only good thing about this short story.

Not good...

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