Her book is smart, albeit with an occasional vibrato of overkill. The plotting is exquisite, and the sentences hum Groff writes with a pleasurable, bantering vividness. His wife, the imperial and striking Mathilde, takes over the second section, Furies, astir with grief and revenge. Lotto’s name evokes the lottery-and the Fates, as his half of the book is titled. The story centers first on Lancelot “Lotto” Satterwhite, a dashing actor at Vassar, who marries his classmate, flounders, then becomes a famous playwright. They were reduced to mouths and hands.” This opener ushers in an ambitious, knowing novel besotted with sex-in a kaleidoscope of variety-much more abundant than the commune-dwellers got up to in Groff’s luminous Arcadia (2012). Groff’s sharply drawn portrait of a marriage begins on a cold Maine beach, with newlyweds “on their knees, now, though the sand was rough and hurt. An absorbing story of a modern marriage framed in Greek mythology.
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