FROM THENEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLING AUTHOR OFFATES AND FURIES

In the fields of western New York State in the 1970s, on the grounds of a decaying mansion called Arcadia House, a few dozen idealists set out to live off the land. Abe and Hannahs only child, Bit, is born into the commune soon after its creation. He grows up there, becoming deeply attached to Arcadia's way of life and everyone within it, in particular the beautiful but troubled Helle. While Arcadia rises and falls, Bit, too, ages and changes. He needs to find a way to live in the world beyond Arcadia, but can he let go of the past to forge a new start?

Lauren Groff is the author of threeNew York Timesbestselling novels Fates and Furies(named by Barack Obama as his favourite book of 2015),The Monsters of TempletonandArcadia as well as the story collectionDelicate Edible Birds. She graduated from Amherst College and has an MFA in fiction from the University of WisconsinMadison. Groffs fiction has won the Pushcart Prize and the PEN/O. Henry Award, among others, and has been shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers and theLos Angeles TimesBook Prize. In 2017, she was named one ofGrantas Best of Young American Novelists. Her stories have appeared in publications includingThe New Yorker, theAtlantic,One StoryandPloughshares, and in several of the annualTheBest New American Storiesanthologies. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, with her husband and two sons.