beautifully crafted novel Groff's second novel, after the well-received The Monsters of Templeton (2008), gives full rein to her formidable descriptive powers, as she summons both the beauty of striving for perfection and the inevitable devastation of failing so miserably to achieve it., 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. If he remains in love with the peaceful agrarian life in Arcadia and deeply attached to its residents-including Handy and Astrid's lithe and deeply troubled daughter, Helle-how can Bit become his own man? How will he make his way through life and the world outside of Arcadia where he must eventually live? With Arcadia, her first novel since her lauded debut, The Monsters of Templeton, Lauren Groff establishes herself not only as one of the most gifted young fiction writers at work today but also as one of our most accomplished literary artists. While Arcadia rises and falls, Bit, too, ages and changes. Arcadia's inhabitants include Handy, a musician and the group's charismatic leader Astrid, a midwife Abe, a master carpenter Hannah, a baker and historian and Abe and Hannah's only child, the book's protagonist, Bit, who is born soon after the commune is created. Arcadia follows this romantic, rollicking, and tragic utopian dream from its hopeful start through its heyday and after.
In the fields of western New York State in the 1970s, a few dozen idealists set out to live off the land, founding what would become a commune centered on the grounds of a decaying mansion called Arcadia House. From the bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton comes a lyrical and gripping story of a great American dream.
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