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A review by elliebotoman
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
4.5
Picked up this book for what I thought would be a mindless vacation read. Ended up getting completely engrossed in Bit’s perspective and the collapse of Arcadia’s promised utopia. Groff executes an impressive feat: narrating the world from Bit’s perspective as a small child putting pieces of the world together and then transporting us to his life decades into the future, tracing how he has grown and how his childhood still clings to his thoughts and behaviors.
The only thing I wish Groff had explored more was poking at Bit’s blissful nostalgia and reckoned more with adult revelations of darkness in the face of experiences that were viewed as normal in childhood.
The only thing I wish Groff had explored more was poking at Bit’s blissful nostalgia and reckoned more with adult revelations of darkness in the face of experiences that were viewed as normal in childhood.