South Moon Under (Florida Editions)

An often-overlooked early work-and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize-by celebrated writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, now available in this Florida Edition with a new foreword for today’s readers by Lauren Groff Originally published in 1933, South Moon Under is the first novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.Set in the Big Scrub of Florida, a sparsely inhabited backwoods near Rawlings’s homestead at Cross Creek, the novel tells a multigenerational tale of the rural Lantry family and their struggle to eke out a living on the land.It depicts pioneer existence before Florida’s twentieth-century tourism and development-and displays the literary powers that would earn Rawlings the Pulitzer Prize six years later for her novel The Yearling. Introduced with a foreword by contemporary writer Lauren Groff, this edition of South Moon Under encourages today’s readers to engage with this lesser-known work.With accounts of moonshining, logging and turpentining, hunting, cattle running, foodways, and frontie