The World That We Are
Available now from Regal House Publishing
“I found Andrew Furman's The World That We Are to be a true delight. Thoreau himself becomes totally alive on the page as a person, not an icon. I was struck time and time again by the tenderness of the portrait, the grace of the writing, and the profound impact past lives can have on present ones. A triumph of research and imagination.”
—Peter Orner, author of The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter
"This exquisite novel follows the lives of one out-of-touch, present-day professor and one ever-relevant thinker of the past (Thoreau!). What results is a generous portrait of friendship, fathership, brothership—and the wild, beautiful effort to save our closest relationships, whatever the cost."
—Leigh Newman, author of Nobody Gets Out Alive
Of Slash Pines and Manatees:
A Highly Selective Field Guide
to My Suburban Wilderness
Available now from University Press of Florida
“With this volume of witty and perceptive essays, Andrew Furman adds South Florida to the literary map, joining the lineage of place-based American writers ranging from Henry David Thoreau and John Muir to Terry Tempest Williams and Wendell Berry. Even if you have never set foot in what he calls his ‘asphalt-frosted’ home territory, his book will invite you to see your own natural and cultural landscape with deeper appreciation.”
—Scott Russell Sanders, author of The Way of Imagination
“Through figures as various and variously lovely as orange blossom, night herons, stingrays, and dulse seaweed, Furman takes us on a deep-dive tour through Floridian—and, by extension, American—history and its changing environment. This book not only makes me want to go to Florida but also to spend every minute there outdoors, hoping to see with vision as fresh and sweet as Furman’s the world he lives in and loves.”
—Nicole Walker, author of Sustainability: A Love Story
“A rich gathering of brilliantly conceived and gracefully executed literary forays into the surprising wildness of nearby nature. Furman has deftly braided natural history, playful curiosity, and deep insight into a narrative rope strong enough to pull us back into our home places with sharpened awareness, and with a renewed appreciation for the more-than-human world that always surrounds us.”
—Michael P. Branch, author of On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World’s Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer
Cover Design: James Knake; Cover Image: David M. Tripp
Jewfish
“Furman’s hapless hero, angler Nathan Pray, doesn’t care about promoting his business with catchy puns—he cares about the game fish snook, which is struggling to survive in a changing climate, and he cares about doing the right thing: as a fisherman, as a father, as a Jew, and as a man. With humor, sensitivity, and tender insight, Jewfish illuminates the delicate ecosystems that both fish and man must navigate in the face of inexorable change.”
—Margot Singer, author of Underground Fugue and The Pale of Settlement
“In his richly detailed rendering of Florida’s coastal waters and the unforgettable characters who fish them, Furman brings readers into a new relationship with this watery wilderness. In its lyrical prose and deep humanity, Jewfish reminds us that in life, as in fishing, we all need a shot at redemption.”
—Michael P. Branch, author of Rants from the Hill and Raising Wild
“Andrew Furman’s Jewfish is a wonderfully pungent, funny, sad, and human novel centering on his paradoxical hero, Nathan Pray, a small-time, barely commercial South Florida fisherman with a naturalist’s sensibility. With unfailing wit and heart, Furman brings us close as his characters face loss, temptation, and testing, and shows how, even in this cockamamie 21st century, strugglers doing the impractical, right thing may, sometimes, prevail.”
—Lynne Barrett, author of Magpies
Goldens Are Here
"Aromatic and heady, fearless and far-reaching, this complicated novel imagines Florida fifty years ago, with all the beauty and all the threat of the era concentrated in a fine story of courage and place. The setting is mythic Florida, in an orange grove, in the middle of social transformation. Kudos to Furman for recreating this rich and unbelievable world. What I loved most was the book’s feast of language, its flavor and sensuality. And of course I loved Janisse."
—Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood and The Seed Underground
"'There was something glorious about an examination with a stethoscope,' muses Isaac Golden, the searching, hopeful patriarch in Andrew Furman’s novel, Goldens Are Here. 'This laying on of hands. This reverent silence. . . . Here was the real, Isaac thought.' Readers looking for the real will find it in Furman’s careful attunement to place (tamarind, lantana, wax myrtle; Parson Brown, Hamlin, Valencia) and time (the Space Age and the Civil Rights struggle). Furman gives this moment in our collective history its due with nuance, warmth, and a palpable sense of family grief and love."
—Joni Tevis, author of The World Is On Fire: Scrap, Treasure, and Songs of Apocalypse
"Andrew Furman's Goldens Are Here is a smart, generous, and engrossing look at the civil rights struggle in Florida. A fascinating meditation on what it means to be a neighbor in a highly unjust world."
—Gary Shteyngart, author of Little Failure and Super Sad True Love Story
Bitten
"An eloquent testament to the impact of the special places that exist both in the natural world and within our hearts."
—Richard Louv, author of The Nature Principle
“This love letter to the Sunshine State is a collection of witty observations and simple pleasures.”
—Publisher’s Weekly
My Los Angeles in Black and (Almost) White
"Part memoir, part social history, Furman’s book is a meditation on integration."
—Forward
"Furman’s style is highly inviting. A fresh approach to discussions on race in America."
—Derek Royal, editor of Philip Roth: New Perspectives on an American Author
Alligators May be Present
"In his endearing debut novel . . . Furman explores with remarkable compassion and hope the twin mysteries of loss and abandonment, and the constant struggle to keep at bay the aching burden of sadness that threatens even the most peaceful and quiet of lives."
—Aryeh Lev Stollman, author of The Far Euphrates and The Illuminated Soul
