FROM THENEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLING AUTHOR OFFATES AND FURIES

Willie Cooper arrives on the doorstep of her ancestral home in Templeton, New York in the wake of a disastrous affair with her much older, married archaeology professor. That same day, the discovery of a prehistoric monster in the lake brings a media frenzy to the quiet, picture-perfect town her ancestors founded. Smarting from a broken heart, Willie then learns that the story her mother had always told her about her father has all been a lie. He wasn't the one-night stand Vi had led her to imagine, but someone else entirely.

As Willie puts her archaeological skills to work digging for the truth about her lineage, a chorus of voices from the town's past rise up around her to tell their sides of the story. Dark secrets come to light, past and present blur, old mysteries are finally put to rest, and the surprising truth about more than one monster is revealed.

Lauren Groff is the author of threeNew York Timesbestselling novels Fates and Furies(named by Barack Obama as his favourite book of 2015),The Monsters of TempletonandArcadia as well as the story collectionDelicate Edible Birds. She graduated from Amherst College and has an MFA in fiction from the University of WisconsinMadison. Groffs fiction has won the Pushcart Prize and the PEN/O. Henry Award, among others, and has been shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers and theLos Angeles TimesBook Prize. In 2017, she was named one ofGrantas Best of Young American Novelists. Her stories have appeared in publications includingThe New Yorker, theAtlantic,One StoryandPloughshares, and in several of the annualTheBest New American Storiesanthologies. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, with her husband and two sons.