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 ...

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 ...

For 15 years, Annabelle Tometich wrote under the famous byline Jean Le Beouf as a food critic for the News-Press. Now, she tells her personal story in her book, “The Mango Tree.” Tometich has been ...