![]() The tone of Fates is cheerful, victorious, and naively self-consumed. The first half, Fates, tells the story of the marriage through Lotto’s point of view. The novel follows two narratives over the course of an apparently glamorous marriage. If she was beside him, he thought, he would float out singing. In a vision, he saw the sea rising up to suck them in, tonguing off their flesh and rolling their bones over its coral molars in the deep. ![]() I will get to this shortly.) Groff’s prose reads like poetry and the diction is precise, sticking to the tongue when spoken aloud: (Which, by the way, is brilliant in its own right. ![]() Lauren Groff’s novel, Fates and Furies, is the first novel I was compelled to finish based almost solely off my fondness for the language. ![]()
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