There are designated crews to work, clean, and cook, a “Free Store” that requires as much give as it does take- all under the officially unofficial leadership of Handy, a hippie musician who preaches that no one is above anyone else, but if they’re going to need some kind of leader well, then, it might as well be him. This is not it.Īrcadia begins with and spends the first half of the book in the 70s with the titular commune, which is certainly not a cult but is also failing to become the utopia it was meant to be. The sentiment is there: everyone is equal and free to be themselves as long as they put in their fair share of work. There will be a Fates and Furies review eventually. Arcadia is, indisputably, where Groff stretched her literary legs and walked Fates and Furies is where she ran. I’m getting ahead of myself. I read Lauren Groff’s three novels slightly out of order I started with her debut novel Monsters of Templeton, following it with her most recent- The Fates and the Furies, and finally ending with her middle novel- Arcadia. And eventually he must face the world beyond Arcadia. He falls in love with Helle, Handy’s lovely, troubled daughter. While Arcadia rises and falls, Bit, too, ages and changes. Arcadia’s inhabitants include Handy, the charismatic leader his wife, Astrid, a midwife Abe, a master carpenter Hannah, a baker and historian and Abe and Hannah’s only child, Bit. From the inside cover: In the fields of western New York State in the 1970s, a few dozen idealists set out to live off the land, founding a commune centered on the grounds of a decaying mansion called Arcadia House. Arcadia follows this romantic utopian dream from its hopeful start through its heyday.
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