Fates and Furies -- Lauren Groff

<b><b><b>A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD</b> <p/>NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER <p/>NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: <i>THE WASHINGTON POST, </i>NPR, <i> TIME, THE SEATTLE TIMES, MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE, </i>SLATE, <i> LIBRARY JOURNAL, KIRKUS, </i> AND MANY MORE</b> <p/>"Lauren Groff is a writer of rare gifts, and <i>Fates and Furies</i> is an unabashedly ambitious novel that delivers - with comedy, tragedy, well-deployed erudition and unmistakable glimmers of brilliance throughout." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> (cover review)<br></b><br> <b>From the award-winning, <i>New York Times-</i>bestselling author of <i>The Monsters of Templeton</i>, <i>Arcadia</i>, <i>Florida</i> and <i>Matrix, </i> an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception. <br></b><br><i>Fates and Furies</i> 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. <p/> 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. <p/> 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 w