A Fort Myers writer got an unexpected Valentine’s Day gift last week: She'd just won the prestigious Southern Book Prize. “I am beside myself…” Tometich wrote on Instagram after the Southern Book ...

Annabelle Tometich's memoir, "The Mango Tree," begins with a sentence that is arresting in all ways. Let's ask the author to read it. ANNABELLE TOMETICH: (Reading) Rows of orange people sit handcuffed ...

In Edel Rodriguez’s “The Mango Tree” and Viet Thanh Nguyen and Minnie Phan’s “Simone,” environmental displacement is a reality and a metaphor. By Alan Gratz Alan Gratz is the author of the middle ...

It was the Friday before Memorial Day weekend, and Annabelle Tometich woke up to a surprising Google Alert on her phone. The Washington Post had just mentioned her new book, "The Mango Tree." To ...

On a summer day in 2015, 64-year-old Josefina Tometich grabbed her trusty BB gun and shot out the back window of a man’s car. The man, she told police, was stealing mangoes from her Fort Myers yard.

Annabelle Tometich’s irresistible memoir opens with a scene that sounds right out of the Weird Florida files: the first court hearing for a Fort Myers grandmother arrested for shooting at a guy who ...