"It's not possible to write any better without showing off. In Arcadia, Groff displays her literary gifts to stunning effect.
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. Arcadia follows this romantic utopian dream from its hopeful start through its heyday. Lauren Groff is the author, most recently, of Matrix. 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. Ersatz Arcadia, the cold-trucks-and-lean-tos temporary camp, is the home of the communards for the first three years while they try to gather enough time, money and energy to renovate the huge. "Even the most incidental details vibrate with life Arcadia wends a harrowing path back to a fragile, lovely place you can believe in." -Ron Charles, The Washington Post She wrote the first drafts of her beautifully chiaroscuro second novel Arcadia in notebooks and on legal pads before reluctantly turning on her computer. She thinks the best decision she and her husband made when they moved to Gainesville, Florida, was not to own a television. But it is by no means this book's only kind of splendor." -Janet Maslin, The New York Times Thirty-three-year-old Lauren Groff calls herself a soft-label Luddite. ARCADIA follows this romantic and tragic utopian dream from its hopeful start through its heyday and after. Groff's prose is one of the best things about Arcadia. by Lauren Groff In the fields of western New York State in the 1970s, a few dozen idealists set out to live off the land, founding what would become a commune centered on the grounds of a decaying mansion called Arcadia House.
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