Fates and Furies
by Lauren Groff · 2015
Literary Fiction · ranked #190 in category
The story of a marriage told twice: first through the husband Lotto's romantic, heroic account of his life as a playwright; then through his wife Mathilde's radically different account of the same events — the version she never shared, full of the things he chose not to see. Groff's novel was Barack Obama's favourite book of 2015 and a National Book Award finalist.
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