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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In her debut memoir, "The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony," author Annabelle Tometich weaves together food, family, culture wars and race.

In recent years, political turmoil in Venezuela has driven many people there to seek new lives abroad. This displacement has ignited a profound longing for their homeland — nostalgia for cherished ...

Restaurant critic Tometich’s witty, open-hearted debut recounts growing up in a mixed Filipino-American household in the Sunshine State. She begins in a Florida courtroom circa 2015: “Rows of orange ...