Jennifer's review
The Monsters of Templeton
by Lauren Groff
Jennifer's review
The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
Jennifer's review
rating:
recommended for: Anyone who has returned to their hometown
"The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass." A great opening line for an interesting book, a love letter to a town in New York that curiously resembles Cooperstown.
The story begins as Willie (Wilhemina) Upton returns home with her tail between her legs and a fetus in her belly. She is running from a disasterous affair with her graduate school professor and dissertation advisor (one that starts on an archeological dig in Alaska but ends when Willie tries to run over his wife with her car). But the trauma is not over. When Willie shows up on the doorstep of Vi, her ex-hippie/now recently-turned-religious mother, who still lives in Templeton, Vi reveals a long-kept secret. Willie was not conceived in a haze of drugs and sex out in San Francisco but rather someone in their small town is the father. However, Vi won't say who it is; Willie must figure it out.
In order to deal with her presen...more
The story begins as Willie (Wilhemina) Upton returns home with her tail between her legs and a fetus in her belly. She is running from a disasterous affair with her graduate school professor and dissertation advisor (one that starts on an archeological dig in Alaska but ends when Willie tries to run over his wife with her car). But the trauma is not over. When Willie shows up on the doorstep of Vi, her ex-hippie/now recently-turned-religious mother, who still lives in Templeton, Vi reveals a long-kept secret. Willie was not conceived in a haze of drugs and sex out in San Francisco but rather someone in their small town is the father. However, Vi won't say who it is; Willie must figure it out.
In order to deal with her presen...more
