KATE WALBERT author of the New York Times bestselling novel A SHORT HISTORY OF WOMEN Groff is one of our most talented writers, and Arcadia one of the most revelatory, magical, and ambitious novels I’ve read in years. Part Stone Diaries, part Lord of the Flies, part something out of a Shakespearean tragedy, Lauren Groff’s Arcadia is so uniquely absorbing that you finish it as if waking from a dream. Arcadia follows this lyrical, rollicking, tragic, and exquisite utopian dream from its hopeful start through its heyday and beyond.īuy on Amazon Buy on BN.com Buy at Books-A-Million Buy at iBooks Buy at Indiebound In the fields and forests of western New York State in the late 1960s, several dozen idealists set out to live off the land, founding what becomes a famous commune centered on the grounds of a decaying mansion called Arcadia House. RICHARD RUSSO Pulitzer Prize-winning author of EMPIRE FALLSįinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award It’s not possible to write any better without showing off. Richly peopled and ambitious and oh, so lovely, Lauren Groff’s Arcadia is one of the most moving and satisfying novels I’ve read in a long time.
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