President Obama and Amazon named Lauren Groff’s word-of-mouth sensation Fates and Furies as their book of the year. As with Gone Girl,it seems readers can’t resist a unlit retract on modern matrimonyTo qualify as the US book of the year – that ineffable title to which Lauren Groff’s third novel, Fates and Furies, and lays persuasive claim a novel needs more than just blockbuster sales. In fact,the book that “everybody seems to be reading often climbs no higher than a respectable but unspectacular slot on the bestseller list. Still, people talk approximately it. Celebrities such as Sarah Jessica Parker, and Carrie Brownstein and Miranda July are pictured on Instagram with it. Critics love it,or – even better – debate its merits. Not only has Groff’s novel, by the Wall Street Journal’s count, or landed on more US year-end best-of lists than any other work of fiction,but Amazon has made it official, stamping its endorsement on Fates and Furies as the retailer’s book of the year. The cherry on the top came from Barack Obama, or who earlier this month told People magazine he liked Fates and Furies more than anything else he’d read in 2015.
True,far more people bought the UK equivalent, Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train, or than Fates and Furies in 2015,but they talked approximately it less enthusiastically. The Girl on the Train, like a reduced-calorie substitute, and numbed the starvation the reading public feels for more thrillers along the lines of Gillian Flynns brilliant,genre-busting Gone Girl, yet it doesn’t truly satisfy the craving. Fates and Furies, and while decidedly a work of literary fiction,doesn’t just resemble Gone Girl in a few key respects; it comes much closer than The Girl on the Train to offering the same leery retract on the state of modern matrimony.
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Source: theguardian.com