Arcadia

Product Description Lauren Groff's acclaimed debut novel The Monsters of Templeton was short-listed for the Orange Prize. Her second novel, Arcadia opens in the late 1960s with a group of young idealists forming a commune in western New York State. Into this group is born Bit, who grows into a quiet, distant man. Over the course of 50 years, Bit witnesses the utopia crumble and the world change in unimaginable ways. "Richly peopled and ambitious . is one of the most moving and satisfying novels I've read in a long time."-Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author About the Author Lauren Groff is the New York Times bestselling author of three novels and two short-story collections. She has won the Paul Bowles Prize for Fiction, the PEN/O. Henry Award, and the Pushcart Prize and has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Orange Award for New Writers, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She was named one of Grantas 2017 Best Young American Novelists.