Like her previous novels, it, too, was published to wide acclaim, some calling it "brilliant," with Ron Charles of the Washington Post saying that "Lauren Groff just keeps getting better and better." It, too, became a New York Times Bestseller, received solid reviews, and was named as one of the Best Books of 2012 by the New York Times, Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, NPR, Vogue, Toronto Globe and Mail, and Christian Science Monitor.įates and Furies (2015), Groff's third novel, examines a complicated marriage over the course of 24 years aas told by first the husband, then his wife. Groff's second novel, Arcadia (2012), recounts the story of the first child born in a fictional 1960s commune in upstate New York. Groff's debut landed on the New York Times Bestseller list and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers. Fenimore Cooper set his book in a fictionalized Cooperstown which he, too, called Templeton. Interspersed in the book are voices from characters drawn from the town's history, as well as from James from Fenimore Cooper's 1823 The Pioneers, the first book in the Leatherstocking Tales. Her first novel, The Monsters of Templeton (2008), is a contemporary tale about coming home to Templeton, a stand-in for Cooperstown, New York. She graduated from Amherst College and from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with an MFA in fiction. Lauren Groff is an American novelist and short story writer, who was as born and raised in Cooperstown, New York. Currently-lives in Gainesville, Florida.Education-B.A., Amherst College M.F.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets.Īt 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. It is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation.Įvery story has two sides. A literary masterpiece that defies expectation and a dazzling examination of a marriage.
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