“For a minute they watched a tide pool of spiny creatures that sent up curls of sand in vanishing,” writes Groff.

The characters are 22 years old, newly married, at the center of each other’s worlds. At the beating heart of all of this is Groff’s memorable couple - Lancelot, or “Lotto,” Satterwhite and Mathilde Yoder - who captures the reader’s complete attention until the novel’s final page.Īt the onset, we meet young Lotto and Mathilde swimming in the cold waters off the coast of Maine. This expansive, brilliant novel offers up a reading experience unlike others, a sort of labyrinth-like fun house of distorted mirrors and unseen trapdoors. If you have other questions that we have not included in our discussion questions for Fates and Furies, please add your opinions and questions below.In her fourth book, “Fates and Furies,” Lauren Groff takes her readers on a delirious, exhilarating and heartbreaking ride through the decades of one fable-like marriage - exploring its shiny, sultry surfaces and its shadowy, subterranean roots. Did you enjoy the book? Who would you recommend this book to? The book makes reference to Greek myths, did you know much about it? Did you want to find out more about Greek gods after reading the book?ġ0. The novel’s theme is about secrets, Mathilde and Lotto had secrets that they kept from each other, do you think that having these secrets prevents the other person from knowing you? Did they know each other, and how does it impact their marriage and how they feel about each other?ĩ. There were numerous twists and surprises in the story, especially on Matilde side of the story, what was the most memorable and why?Ĩ. Why did Matilde not get total revenge on Chollie at the end when she could have given him to the FBI, especially when he was the culprit and instigator of breaking up her marriage to Lotto?ħ. Did you connect to either Lotto or Matilde?Ħ. Did you think that their marriage was realistic and believable?ĥ. We get a glimpse of another side of Mathilde, once when she was 4 and did something that ultimately lead to the demise of her baby brother, and the other when she got rid of Bridget (Lotto’s girlfriend at that time), do you think that this is the sort of person she is- calculating and manipulative? How do you perceive her?Ĥ.

Lotto was told he was destined for greatness whereas Mathilde had the opposite experience, what effect do you think it had on them? How does it shape their perception and the rest of their lives?ģ. Lotto early years were very different to Mathilde. Lotto’s story is under Fates, and Mathilde under Furies, why do you think Groff divided the book like this? What the significance of it?Ģ. Please put your comments for Fates And Furies book club discussion questions in the comment area below.ġ.

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