In an interview, founder Stephen Gaskin says its founding was driven by the members' need for land. So she began to research Utopian societies, and eventually settled on two: Oneida, a 19th century commune in upstate New York, and The Farm, founded in Tennessee in the 1960s. She found herself fascinated by the way people keep trying to form Utopian communities, even though so many of them ultimately fail. I was trying to will the world into caring and will myself into being happy," Groff says. "And so this book came as an act of willpower. She fell into a depression, living in an unfamiliar town where she didn't know anyone, waiting for her first book to be published and wondering what kind of world she was bringing her child into. Groff says she got the idea for Arcadia while pregnant with her first child. She's more interested in Utopian communities, like the 1960s commune she envisions in her new novel, Arcadia. How?ĭystopian worlds may be all the rage in fiction right now, but writer Lauren Groff is bucking that trend. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Arcadia Author Lauren Groff
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