“With Fates and Furies Lauren Groff goes many levels below the surface of a marriage, into a place that is perhaps as hard to reach as it is to describe, but Groff, a bold and marvelous writer, is able to do both. Profound, surprising, propulsive, and emotionally riveting, it stirs both the mind and the heart. With stunning revelations and multiple threads, and in prose that is vibrantly alive and original, Groff delivers a deeply satisfying novel about love, art, creativity, and power that is unlike anything that has come before it. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but with an electric thrill we understand that things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed. At the core of this rich, expansive, layered novel, Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years.Īt age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love, and destined for greatness. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation.Įvery story has two sides.

New York Times Bestseller and Notable Book of 2015įrom the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia, an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception.įates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. Winner of the American Booksellers’ Association Award for Adult Fiction Winner of the Madame Figaro Grand Prix le l’Héroïne Buy at Buy at BAM (Books-a-Million) Buy on Amazon Buy on Barnes and Noble Buy at Apple Booksįinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Prize

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