Through the Groves : Henry Holt & Company Inc : 9780805093377 : 0805093370 : 14 Jul 2023 : ?Anne Hull has written some of the most important stories of our time, beautifully, unflinchingly.? ?Rick Bragg A richly evocative coming-of-age memoir set in the Florida orange groves of the 1960s by a Pulitzer Prize?winning journalist Anne Hull grew up in rural Central Florida, barefoot half the time and running through the orange groves her father's family had worked for generations. The ground trembled from the vibrations of bulldozers and jackhammers clearing land for Walt Disney World. ?Look now,? her father told her as they rode through the mossy landscape together. ?It will all be gone.? But the real threat was at home, where Hull was pulled between her idealistic but self-destructive father and her mother, a glamorous outsider from Brooklyn struggling with her own aspirations. All the while, Hull felt the pressures of girlhood closing in. She dreamed of becoming a traveling salesman wh