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MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE SLATE LIBRARY JOURNAL KIRKUS AND MANY MORE Lauren Groff is a
writer of rare gifts and Fates and Furies is an unabashedly ambitious novel that delivers -
with comedy tragedy well-deployed erudition and unmistakable glimmers of brilliance
throughout. -The New York Times Book Review (cover review) Elaborate sensual...a writer whose
books are too exotic and unusual to be missed.-The New York Times Fates and Furies is a
clear-the-ground triumph. -Ron Charles The Washington Post From the award-winning New York
Times-bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton Arcadia and Florida an exhilarating
novel about marriage creativity art and perception. Fates and Furies is a literary
masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage it is also a
portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation. Every
story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes it turns out the
key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. 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. At age twenty-two Lotto and Mathilde are tall glamorous madly in love
and destined for greatness. 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. 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. Profound surprising
propulsive and emotionally riveting it stirs both the mind and the heart.
