Stiltsville (Audible Audio Edition) Susanna Daniel Suzanne Toren Audible Studios Books
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One sunny morning in 1969, near the end of her first trip to Miami, 26-year-old Frances Ellerby finds herself in a place called Stiltsville, a community of houses built on pilings in the middle of Biscayne Bay.
It's the first time the Atlanta native has been out on the open water, and she's captivated. On the dock of a stilt house, with the dazzling skyline in the distance and the unknowable ocean beneath her, she meets the house's owner, Dennis DuValand, and a new future reveals itself.
Turning away from her quiet, predictable life back home, Frances moves to Miami to be with Dennis. Over time, she earns the confidence of his wild-at-heart sister and wins the approval of his oldest friend. Frances and Dennis marry and have a child, but rather than growing complacent about their good fortune, they continue to face the challenges of intimacy and the complicated city they call home.
Stiltsville is the family's island oasis - until suddenly it's gone, and Frances is forced to figure out how to make her family work on dry land. Against a backdrop of lush tropical beauty, Frances and Dennis struggle with the mutability of love and Florida's weather, as well as temptation, chaos, and disappointment. But just when Frances thinks she's reached some semblance of higher ground, she must confront an obstacle so great that even the lessons she's learned about navigating the uncharted waters of family life can't keep them afloat.
With Stiltsville, Susanna Daniel weaves the beauty, violence, and humanity of Miami's coming-of-age with an enduring story of a marriage's beginning, maturity, and heartbreaking demise. Suzanne Toren's limpid narration perfectly complements Daniel's incandescent prose.
Stiltsville (Audible Audio Edition) Susanna Daniel Suzanne Toren Audible Studios Books
This is a lovely novel. When I read the first few chapters it I wasn't sure if I would like it, but I decided to hold on and I am so glad I did. Stiltsville is the story of a marriage. How simple, and how wonderful, is that. The main character through whose eyes we see the action is Frances, first a girlfriend then a wife. She is a lovely creation - I liked her so much. And I liked her husband, Dennis. It might sound odd for me to say this is a page-turner, but it is. You just want to see what is going to happen to them as they go through life. The ending was deeply moving. You believe so fully in the marriage that it's hard to see it coming to an end. But Frances is a strong woman. We should all be as strong and gracious and thankful as she is when tragedy strikes.Product details
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Stiltsville (Audible Audio Edition) Susanna Daniel Suzanne Toren Audible Studios Books Reviews
I lived in Miami during the time period covered in this book and I just loved the trip down memory lane. Daniel does a wonderful job of setting up the story and taking the reader through a thirty year marriage. She is talented in her way of describing the challenges of relationships and how they can take unexpected turns and twists.
The actual Stiltsville is a legend and needed a tribute to it's beauty and fragility. Losing the houses in Hurricane Andrew was a watershed event for the culture of Miami and this book pays homage in an engaging and heartbreaking fashion.
I was distracted by inconsistencies in dates of a few key events.Because I lived in Miami in the 80's I know the dates of the Christo art and the McDuffie trial. This was "explained" in an afterword but, the change in the dates seemed to be arbitrary and since it was not done to enhance the story, I think that she should have paid proper respect by using the correct dates.
This book is not at all what I expected...Reading the other reviews I feel like I read a totally different book than other reviewers...I had great difficulty finishing Stiltsvilles. I found it slow, tedious and boring and a real downer....an encapsulated view of a marriage and life that isn't very interesting....I bought this book because of the title....and expected something totally different...I am a native Miamian and was born here in 1953...the few facts about Miami sounded researched....by the way, blueberries don't grow in South Florida.....sorry I wasted my time...
As a person interested in Miami as a character, and the stilt houses in Biscayne bay being part of Miami's history, I was happy to finally read this book. There is a sequel about other characters in a stilt house that I had read first, but the two novels stand alone. This is a story of a marriage over time and the challenges of having a "vacation home" that is only reachable by boat. Enjoyed it immensely.
I thought 'Stiltsville,' a brilliant story told by an extraordinarily gifted raconteur. I knew a bit about Stiltsville, the place, having sailed through there crossing Biscayne Bay in 1990, pre-Andrew. That of course tells you nothing regarding the back-story of the era, the story's characters or of Miami from a different era in the 1960s and 70s.
I lived in Tampa in the late sixties, the time when 'Stiltsville' opens. I spent ten days of every month in Miami, Miami Beach, Coconut Grove and the surrounding neighborhoods. To be sure there was a certain pace and an aura to daily life that was present there and no where else I'd ever lived. Surely life there was nothing like the previous years I'd spent in the Midwest, faster paced but unceasingly boring. The point of all this digression is simply that absent a gifted storyteller you'd never pickup any of this, especially given life in Miami today.
I fell in love with the novelist's story the minute I could clearly see myself on its fringe observing its wonderful characters, Francis, Dennis, Bette, Marse, Gloria, Grady, Margo, Stuart and others. They were players writ both large and small in the exquisite tale of a relationship throughout its entire lifetime. It took place in era where I'd lived, walked, explored and could recall the feel of hot humid days the smell of the sea or of the air after a torrential shower, the languid movements of gators along the canal banks. It was an amazing time and place to me.
I hated finishing this captivating story. It was like closing the book for the final time on a chapter of my own life. Probably sounds overly sentimental but true, nonetheless. I would recommend this novel to anyone that appreciates a great story with fabulous three dimensional character development.
The author, Susanna Daniel is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, viewed as the top MFA writers program in the country.* Among her many colleagues from this program is the widely acknowledged best selling novelist, Ann Patchett. There has to be an element of 'The Writer's Workshop,' that enables authors to excel at such vivid development of characters.
Susanna Daniel has a new novel, 'Sea Creatures,' due the end of July. You can order it now. I certainly have already done so.
*Poets and Writers Rankings 2012 Seth Abramson, Freelance Journalist
Loved this book. Bought it a couple of years ago because of Stiltsville, which has always interested me, but didn't expect the place to be so entwined with the story, figured it was just a hook. So assuming disappointment, I kept passing it over for other reads--until now. And wow was I wrong, this is a first-rate novel with a beginning, a middle and an end and interesting well-defined characters! It can be described simply, girl (Frances) meets boy (Dennis), they marry and proceed living life. Their dramas could be anyone's, no jarring catastrophe ginned up for dramatic effect occurs, when sadness appears it is ordinary and poignant.
Early in the novel, shortly after meeting Dennis, Frances thinks to herself "I'd known a few men pretty well, and something I'd noticed about many of them was that for some reason they didn't like to give you what you want, whatever it happened to be....This seemingly was not because they couldn't spare it, but because they wanted to teach you not to want it." "Stiltsville" builds on that insight, partnership, family, acceptance, ordinary joy and sadness, too, and does it all very well.
This is a lovely novel. When I read the first few chapters it I wasn't sure if I would like it, but I decided to hold on and I am so glad I did. Stiltsville is the story of a marriage. How simple, and how wonderful, is that. The main character through whose eyes we see the action is Frances, first a girlfriend then a wife. She is a lovely creation - I liked her so much. And I liked her husband, Dennis. It might sound odd for me to say this is a page-turner, but it is. You just want to see what is going to happen to them as they go through life. The ending was deeply moving. You believe so fully in the marriage that it's hard to see it coming to an end. But Frances is a strong woman. We should all be as strong and gracious and thankful as she is when tragedy strikes.
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