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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

She didn't plan to write about her infamous "mango shooter" mom. At least not entirely. Instead, Annabelle Tometich started out writing what she thought was a cookbook ― an obvious move for the former ...

NPR Scott Simon talks with journalist Annabelle Tometich about her book, "The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit Florida, and Felony." Annabelle Tometich's memoir, "The Mango Tree," begins with a sentence ...