Karen Black
Authors Lauren Groff and Robin Black Talk on Literature and Marriage
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Darien and New Canaan libraries are joining forces to start a new, annual event they’re calling “Head to Head” — unlike the towns’ sports rivalries, this one is more like “two heads are better than one,” and both heads are authors in conversation, talking in front of the public. The first “Head to Head” brings together Lauren Groff, whose novel, Fates and Furies, was reviewed a year ago by the second author, Robin Black, in the New York Times Book Review. It was a favorable review, and “nuanced” as the announcement from the Darien Library describes it. Black notes that the narrative, which revolves around the marriage of a successful, somewhat naive and even narcissistic man and a more retiring but fierce woman, is first told from his perspective and then hers, with revelations about some initial mysteries. Black observed that
The questions that emerge once the novel’s disparate parts fall into place are neither small nor limited to the narrative at hand.
