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New Lebanon Book Group: "Fates and Furies" by Lauren Groff
April 3, 2016
The Book: "Fates and Furies" by Lauren Groff
“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 of The Interestings
“Fates and Furies is a dazzling novel, its people and its prose wondrously alive from page one. At once intimate and sweeping, this is the story of a marriage as parallel myths— flaring with passion and betrayal, with redemption and retribution, with the sort of heart-breaking, head-slapping secrets that make you want to seek out someone else who's read it. Lauren Groff is a powerful and graceful writer, one of the best of her generation.” —Jess Walter, New York Times-bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins
We meet at 11 a.m the first Sunday of each month at the New Lebanon Library. Visitors, drop-ins, and new readers are always welcome.
One final note: we have members with chemical sensitivities, so please refrain from wearing perfume or products with fragrance when we gather for discussion or to share a meal.
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