Stiltsville by Susanna Daniel

Stiltsville by Susanna Daniel

Summary

When Frances accepts an invitation to visit Stiltsville, a community of houses built on pilings in Biscayne Bay, she has no idea that her simple "yes" to a new friend will determine the course of her life for the next two dozen years. Set in Miami from the late '60s to the 1990s, Stiltsville is a sweeping journey seen through the eyes of one woman as she experiences love, motherhood, friendship, hurricanes, racial tension, and finally, a tragic death in slow motion.

 

Locations: Florida - Stiltsville, Miami, Coral Gables

  1. Stiltsville, Florida

  2. Everglades

  3. Coral Gables

  4. Coconut Grove

  5. Little Havana

  6. Key Biscayne

  7. Soldier Key

  8. Fisheating Creek

  9. Shark Valley

  10. Miami

  11.  Virginia Key 

  12.  Tamiami Trail, scenic drive

  13. Cape Florida Lighthouse

  14. Viscaya Museum & Gardens

  15. Freedom Tower, Museum of Art &

  16. Sandbar (Hungry Sailor Pub)

  17. Miracle Mile Shopping

  18. Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables

  19. Biscayne Bay Yacht Club

  20. Coconut Grove Sailing Club

Reviews

“A wise and loving portrait of a marriage….Susanna Daniel writes beautifully of matters of the heart.”
— Jennifer Haigh, author of The Condition

 

Against a vivid South Florida background, Susanna Daniel’s Stiltsville offers a gripping, bittersweet portrait of a marriage—and a romance—that deepens over the course of three decades. Called “an elegantly crafted work of art and a great read” by Curtis Sittenfeld (American Wife, Prep) Stiltsville is a stunningly assured debut novel sure to appeal to readers of Anita Shreve, Sue Miller, and Annie Dillard, or anyone enchanted by the sultry magic of Miami.