Arcadia

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