![]() ![]() ![]() Groff has borrowed from James Fenimore Cooper, the town’s namesake, and called her early American settlement, soon to be a village, and finally a full-fledged Baseball Hall of Fame city, Templeton, New York. ![]() Monsters is a historical novel set in Cooperstown, New York. Monsters, Groff’s first novel, is a cornucopia of reading bliss, and I thought it wise to get that review posted on this website so that those of you unfamiliar with the author can whet your appetite before her new book, Delicate Edible Birds (nine short stories), comes out. When I wrote this review in November of 2008, for the Clayton Pioneer, I declared Lauren Groff, the author of The Monsters of Templeton, The Most Wildly Imaginative Novelist of 2008. The Monsters of Templeton and everything else in between. ![]()
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