Groff is her sheer unpredictability: She can inject her narrator''s voice at any time, turn a sentence into a small hurricane.' - The New York Times 'Even from her impossibly high starting point, Lauren Groff just keeps getting better and better. '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) 'One of the pleasures of reading Ms. 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 age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love, and destined for greatness. 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. 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.

Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 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 The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Florida and Matrix, an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception.

Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff