In Bodega Stories, Amaris Castillo takes readers inside Orlando Latin Market, a bodega owned and operated by her parents in St. Petersburg, Florida, to reveal a thriving local hub that bridges generations, languages, and traditions. Through charming true stories from the bodega’s visitors, Castillo delivers a portrait of finding home – between the cultures we inherit and the ones we embrace. In her memoir Anywhere Else: Essays on Florida, Rachel Knox weaves her own story with media caricatures of her home state, portraying a Floridian struggling with a deep, complicated love for the place she calls home. As she digs deeper into what it’s like to be from a “wild” place, she asks who gets to decide what that means.

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