A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, TIME, THE
SEATTLE TIMES, 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)
**From the award-winning, *New York Times-*bestselling author of
Florida, Matrix, and the highly-anticipated The Vaster Wilds: 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.
