Lauren Groff reads at Greenlight Bookstore Wed 28. It’s a world that, in some ways, is easier to imagine than the utopian dream of half a century ago. As the author’s lovely language both surprises and lulls, the story moves to a believable future severely affected by global warming and epidemics. With Bit as something of a nonparticipant, the book’s best character is Hannah when illustrating Hannah’s decline, Groff is at her best. The dilemma at the core of Arcadia is the choice between freedom and community and, beyond that, the different ways to create a utopia. At the same time his mother, Hannah, is being slowly betrayed by her aging body. As Bit assimilates to life on the outside, he comes into his own as a photographer, observing and documenting the world around him but not acting on it. 'It is this incredible, strange, weird, delicious, bizarre place that I have come to less of an understanding of after 12 years then I. Groff’s prose is one of the best things about Arcadia.But it is by no means this book’s only kind of splendor. Hyperion/Voice, 25. Lauren Groffs dazzling new collection of 11 short stories. The reader sees this through the eyes of the diminutive outsider Bit, who spends his kidhood in Arcadia and subsequently flees the commune with his disillusioned parents. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Timeless and vast The raw beauty of Ms. Strong ideals need strong people to uphold them, and Arcadia crumbles when faced with forces much bigger and more powerful than the splintering collective. The novel opens on a hippie commune-a sunny and idyllic place of bare breasts, fertile gardens and hard work well rewarded-and tracks its deterioration into a sinister place of drugs, hunger, filth and rotting power structures. Things fall apart in Arcadia, the 1960s utopia of Lauren Groff’s third book.
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