LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD"Lauren Groff is a writer of rare gifts, and Fates and Furies is an unabashedly ambitious novel that delivers – with comedy, tragedy, well-deployed erudition and unmistakable glimmer...

The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, thefifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass.' So beginsThe Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part acontemporary story of a girl's search for...