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Mango Summers

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For those who love Key West, this book will confirm that affection. It will also offer insight into what it's like for those who arrive, fall in love with Key West, and decide to stay. The twenty delicious stories include one called "Leaf Woman," by Margit Bisztray, a revealing oblique peep into the interior life of a woman who typifies one of the many young people who swarm to Key West to find the only work available is low-end drone jobs. The cover with the Key West row house with the rooster perched on the railing of the porch is quintessential Key West.

I have read this book , and once again the authors from key west have brought me back to the Island that I long to call home. Especially Bruce Weiss's piece " Chicken Wars " was fabulous In my opinion Bruce is one of the best new authors of our time , and I can't wait to see what his next novel to read. Also David Kauflet piece was also excellent. Once again proving that he still has a great depth of talent to pull from. Definitely a book worth reading.

The third and latest short-story collection by a diverse and dedicated group of Key West resident-writers continues to keep a finger on the pulse of this tiny, delightfully deranged island. Their latest offering is whimsical, entertaining and right on target.

In the Mango Summers story - Corrida Faux Pas - By W.Williamson
The author truly captures the essence and feel of the "Key West" experience. Anyone who grew up on the island, lived there, or for that matter, even visit regularly, will relive their time spent there while read this story. Once again the Key West Authors Coop has a winner!

I reread this book, lately, and the voices are are still there though the authors are not. It's the magic of that island, finding the same breezes that Hemingway and Tennessee found. And a drink in between is still not that far from the bar. And the words come, when the words come.
But we never leave it behind. Mango Summers or Avocado Falls, we're all human, as Mr. LENNON said. And the human condtion hasn't changed, at all, in the centuries, in between the minutes of the poets and writers that get drunk on thier fill,
reminding us, there's a mango in the summer and an avocado in the fall.