![]() ![]() This golden boy, or “shining one”, born in a hurricane, is adored by his parents and aunt until death intrudes, his mother metamorphoses from mermaid to beached whale, and he starts to drink and take drugs with the wrong crowd.Īn accident on the beach, a first experience of sex that makes him think of “mangoes, split papayas, fruits tart and sweet and dripping with juice”, and Lotto’s wayward, tropical youth is brought to an abrupt halt by his banishment to a boarding school in New England. Groff lives in Florida and the early section describing Lotto’s youth in her home state has a magic-realist flavour. Lauren Groff’s fat novel Fates and Furies is the portrait of a marriage, seen from both sides: first his, then hers. ![]() I t starts with honeymoon sex on a cold New England beach, and ends with lonely old age in London decades later. ![]()
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