However, Vi refuses to tell Willie who her father is.
To jar Willie out of her depression, Vi shares a shocking revelation: Willie's birth was not the result of a one-night stand with a fellow hippie in a commune, as Willie had always supposed, but a one-night stand with a now-married Templeton resident. Her disgrace is a disappointment to her mother, Vi, who had come back to town under similar conditions before Willie's birth. Luckily, The Monsters of Templeton also marks the appearance of an original talent that can stand on its own in comparison to these literary heavyweights.Īs the novel opens, Willie has returned to Templeton, New York, after a disastrous affair with her doctoral advisor at Stanford.
And like the main characters of Foer and Pessl, Groff's quirky protagonist, 28-year-old Willie Upton, is trying to solve a mystery about her past. Lauren Groff's exuberant debut follows in the footsteps of notable first novels like Marisha Pessl's Special Topics in Calamity Physics and Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated with its blend of illustrations, photographs and text.
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