Fates and Furies

Fates and Furies

By Lauren Groff
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“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. Because she’s so vitally talented line for line and passage for passage, and because her ideas about the ways in which two people can live together and live inside each other, or fall away from each other, or betray each other, feel foundationally sound and true, Fates and Furies becomes a book to submit to, and be knocked out by, as I certainly was.”

Meg Wolitzer, New York Times bestselling author

A 2015 Amazon Best Books of the Year Selection

A Time Magazine Best Book of 2015

Finalist for the 2016 Indies Choice Award

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.

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  1. Kathryn1
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    Brilliant storytelling, totally worth it

    I almost barfed after the first few chapters- cloying, sticky-sweet, obnoxious overplayed memes of young idealized love and actors trying to make it in a tough world. But I stuck it out because of the NYT review, and others, and it was totally worth it. This is a complex, twisting story - woven and delivered in a way that sucks you in. Bright, and massively entertaining. It's at once unbelievable, unrealistic - but also universal. The characters become more nuanced as the story progresses, more relateable, imperfect, much more interesting. I am 15 months into marriage - and the weaving of two separate people together, in partnership - half truths, love that waxes and wanes, and endures - that felt good, enriching. I finished the story and returned to the critical chapters to hear them again, knowing the ending. It made me love and cherish my husband more. The time we have now feels more precious. Listen, and you'll be rewarded.

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