Roaming and Reading: Dennis Lehane's Tampa

'Live By Night' by Dennis Lehane
'Live By Night' by Dennis Lehane
Book cover courtesy of publisher

We've started a segment on The Daily Circuit called Roaming and Reading. It's a mash-up of two things Kerri loves: literature and travel.

In this installment, we travel to Florida to explore Tampa through Dennis Lehane's "Live by Night."

Our "guide" novelist is Diana Abu-Jaber. Kerri loved her novel, "Birds of Paradise."

"You embrace such a strong sense of place in your writing," Kerri said.

Abu-Jaber discusses how she integrates Florida's atmosphere, smells and sounds into her fiction work.

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