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 ...

The Mango Tree kicks off with a phone call: Journalist Annabelle Tometich is informed her mom has been arrested for shooting a man, with a BB gun, who was trying to take mangoes from her yard. What ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Fort Myers writer got an unexpected Valentine’s Day gift last week: She'd just won the prestigious Southern Book Prize. “I am ...

Wielding visual power in this wordless picture book, Rodriguez renders a story of a childhood friendship enacted in the branches of a mango tree. Across a wide ocean landscape, an island rises ...

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.

The journalist’s memoir focuses with humor and heart on her complicated relationship with her mom. Colette is the former books editor for the Tampa Bay Times. She now writes for Bay Magazine. The ...

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 ...