Of Manatees and Slash Pines: An Evening with Andrew Furman

Of Slash Pines and Manatees is Andrew Furman's exploration of connections between everyday suburban life and the South Florida environment. Furman masterfully blends his encounters in the natural world blend with ordinary, all-too-relatable stories of home and family life in these chapters. Puzzled and fascinated by the plants and animals he meets while continually preoccupied by busy domestic routines, Furman illustrates the beauty of his “suburban wilderness.” He also reckons with changes and threats to the surrounding landscape. How, he asks, should humans go about living in what is simultaneously one of the most overdeveloped and most naturally beautiful states in the country?

 
Furman will share readings from this delightful new book, and inspire listeners to focus fiercely on the local, to conduct their own adventures in the ecosystem outside their front doors, and to see that even in the most overdeveloped areas, what is wild persists. 

This event is free and open to all. Doors open at 6:30; reading begins at 7pm. 

Andrew Furman is professor of English at Florida Atlantic University and teaches in its MFA program in creative writing. His many books include Jewfish, Goldens Are Here, and Bitten: My Unexpected Love Affair with Florida.