Melissa Tunstall: “Every story has more than one side to it — particularly marriages, which is central to Laura Groff’s Fates and Furies. However, Groff does not intend to tell a story about everyone’s marriage. No, for Groff, Fates and Furies is truly only about Mathilde and Lancelot, who goes by the nickname Lotto.”
The Bees, A novel by Laline Paull — Worker bee Flora 717 does not calmly enter into this world; she explodes into it, tearing through the waxy constraints of her womb room. Born into the lowest caste of the hive, Flora should be a mute bee who works her sanitation job diligently and without question, but that’s not the case.
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