Lotto is a goofy, engaging take on the mythic hero: Born during a hurricane to a mother who's been a theme-park mermaid and Disney princess and a father named Gawain, Lotto leads what seems like a charmed life-when his first career as an actor stumbles, he transforms into a brilliant playwright. How deeply they come to know each other fills the book's first half how much they don't know is stunningly revealed in the second. The novel opens with a young couple, Lotto and Mathilde, on the day they marry, two weeks after they meet. Usually, fairy tales end with a wedding and a “happily ever after.” In Lauren Groff's dazzling contemporary fairy tale Fates and Furies, the wedding is only the beginning, and the ever-after far more complicated. In the days leading up to the March 17 announcement of the 2015 NBCC award winners, Critical Mass highlights the thirty finalists. Today, NBCC board member Colette Bancroft offers an appreciation of fiction finalist Lauren Groff's Fates and Furies (Riverhead).
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