"That year, we natives stopped looking one another in the eye," says Lollie, the overweight high-school breast-stroke champion who narrates (read the story's opening). In "Lucky Chow Fun," a group of Chinese prostitutes change life in a small New England town. Still, it's excellent, smart-alecky chick-lit that offers something more intense that will appeal to men as well: stories about how seemingly powerless people can shift their societies. Her second book, the short-story collection Delicate Edible Birds, is rougher - most of the pieces were written when she was a student. However wacky the world could get, Groff could go one notch wackier and keep the story vital. Her debut novel, The Monsters of Templeton, a tale of magical realism with a prehistoric lake monster as a supporting character, burst onto the literary scene last year to become a New York Times best-seller.
Lauren Groff's debut novel, The Monsters of Templeton, was a New York Times best-seller.Īuthor Lauren Groff has a certain winsome, best-friend-forever voice, wise and irreverent, filled with brash, adolescent bravura.
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