At least, this is the way the novel begins, readers flinging their perceptions and acceptances wide to embrace a story we have been preconditioned to consider great. Indeed, the melancholic tone and addictive writing spiced with memorable and quotable sentences starts Fates and Furies with that Eugenides air for deep drama and characters who, despite their bizarreness, capture us with their likable, lamentable brokenness and the very realness of the atmosphere in which they live. It’s effectively a deep topic, both beautiful and sad, and all the literary book review blurb and the author’s own spicy interview promises something epic and memorable along the lines of a Jeffrey Eugenides offering. Ostensibly a story of marriage, the narrative is more encompassing, a character study and a discourse on perception and the secrets we must withhold – how we never truly know each other. (above quote from Napoleon because I, too, can be a smarty-pants)įrom the addicting Book of the Month club to the rave New York Times review with all its mentions of Greek choruses, Shakespeare, and Sophocles, to the teasing of female fury in NPR’s review, and finally, the exquisitely intriguing Lit Up PodCast with author Lauren Groff the Internet besieged me to stop everything and read Fates and Furies. Rating: “History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
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