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Groff knows that it is at a relationship’s core where a certain darkness sleeps, one that can either reinforce or dissolve a union.

And then, at the very center of things, when they are at their closest, there will open a supermassive black hole.”Īlthough we are not told so explicitly, the passage is to be understood as a metaphor for marriage - or at least the marriage that is explored in Groff’s novel, a both expansive and introspective realist fable of passion and compromise. “The long arms of both galaxies will reach longingly out and grasp hands at the last moment, and they will come spinning back in the opposite direction, their legs entwined but never hitting until the second swirl becomes a clutch, a dip, a kiss.

After they spin past each other, she writes: Toward the end of Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies, our narrator describes the “slow tango” of our galaxy with the Andromeda Galaxy, their inevitable collision. Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work.