Eighteen unforgettable stories of women navigating the beauty and chaos of Miami.

The Tamiami Trail cuts through the contradictions of Miami: a city shaped by swamps and skyscrapers, violence and desire. In Tamiami Trail: Miami Stories, Jennifer Bannan brings us eighteen vivid portraits of women navigating this teeming, volatile landscape.

An adolescent trapped in a toxic relationship. A middle-aged woman entangled with a reckless boy. A marketing executive profiting off the chaos of hurricanes. These women—mothers, daughters, lovers—take their chances in a world where environmental and personal disasters collide, where the ocean’s expanse mirrors the risks they take with their own lives.

Steamy, sharp, and deeply human, Tamiami Trail depicts the beauty and brutality of Miami, evoking its lush landscapes and relentless energy. With wit and sharp insight, Bannan maps the unruly desires that drive her unforgettable characters and the city that shapes them.

Jennifer Bannan is an author based in Pittsburgh with her husband, Sean Eckenrod, and son, Cypress Bard. She has had stories in the Autumn House Press anthology, Keeping the Wolves at Bay, and has been published in literary journals including the Kenyon Review online, ACM, Passages North, and The Chicago Quarterly Review. Her nonfiction has appeared in The Millions, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Washington Post.

9This Crisis Brought to You by Me
24My Communist Leanings
26Museness
38To Be a Girlfriend
40Pulling Plaid
49Enough
51You’re Always Game
63Protection
65Tidal
74Coke
77Lobscouse
88Hole
90Bed, Futon, Couch
102Cessna
104You Must Not Return to Your Childhood Room
119Home Again
121The Pairs
134The Devastated
137Power Shovel