Fates and Furies

Description:

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. Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years. 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 with an electric thrill we understand that things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed. 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 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 sometimes it's what you don't say-- to protect your partner's vanity, their reputation, their heart-- that makes a marriage hum. Until it doesn't ...

subjects: FICTION / Family Life,  Large type books,  Married people,  Dramatists,  Fiction,  Man-woman relationships,  Fiction, family life,  Married people, fiction,  English literature,  FICTION / Contemporary Women,  FICTION / Literary,  Secrets,  Jealousy,  Emotions,  Friendship,  Roman familial,  Couples mariés,  Romans, nouvelles,  Dramaturges,  Literary,  Family Life,  Contemporary Women,  Love stories,  Interpersonal relations,  nyt:hardcover-fiction=2015-10-04,  New York Times bestseller,  New York Times reviewed,  Fiction, family life, general

Places: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.),  New York (State),  Manhattan,  New York