Summary of Fates and Furies: by Lauren Groff | Includes Analysis

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Summary of Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff | Includes Analysis

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A finalist for the 2015 National Book Award, Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff tells the story of Lancelot and Mathilde Satterwhite, a married couple. The first section of the book is told mostly from the perspective of Lancelot, or Lotto as he’s known to friends and family, a privileged actor-turned-playwright. The second section is told from the perspective of Mathilde, Lotto’s beautiful, devoted, yet emotionally damaged wife. Gradually, the novel unfolds their separate histories and reveals their secrets. After tragedy strikes their marriage, Mathilde channels the fury that has been building into vengeance and finally comes to accept her fate.

The first section, “Fates,” opens with Lotto and Mathilde’s elopement in 1990. The two 22-year-olds, who had met just two weeks earlier, make love passionately on a beach in Maine. When Lotto kisses her and calls her his, Mathilde resists. “Nobody belongs to anybody,” she says…

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• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 9, 2016
• ISBN: 9781945048432

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A finalist for the 2015 National Book Award, Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff tells the story of Lancelot and Mathilde Satterwhite, a married couple. The first section of the book is told mostly from the perspective of Lancelot, or Lotto as he’s known to friends and family, a privileged actor-turned-playwright. The second section is told from the perspective of Mathilde, Lotto’s beautiful, devoted, yet emotionally damaged wife. Gradually, the novel unfolds their separate histories and reveals their secrets. After tragedy strikes their marriage, Mathilde channels the fury that has been building into vengeance and finally comes to accept her fate.

The first section, Fates, opens with Lotto and Mathilde’s elopement in 1990. The two 22-year-olds, who had met just two weeks earlier, make love passionately on a beach in Maine. When Lotto kisses her and calls her his, Mathilde resists. Nobody belongs to anybody, she says. Thus begins the strained romance of two people who over decades will manage to learn everything and nothing about each other at the very same time.

Lotto is dimpled, charming, and larger than life. The beloved son of Antoinette and Gawain and nephew of Sallie, Lotto is the light of the world for all three adults during his childhood on his family’s Florida plantation. But when his father dies of an aneurysm, Lotto’s perfect world is turned upside down. A grieving Antoinette decides to sell the plantation and put