![]() ![]() ![]() In the wake of the scandal, Willie returns to her hometown of Templeton, New York, which is directly based on the author’s real-life hometown of Cooperstown, New York, the home of the National Baseball Hall of Fame which was founded in 1786 by William Cooper, the father of the renowned American author James Fenimore Cooper. To make matters worse, Willie attempts to run over her professorial paramour’s wife with her car. ![]() The reason for her leave of absence is that she is engaged in an affair with her married advisor at Stanford while on an archaeology trip to Alaska that results in her pregnancy. ![]() Most reviews and summaries of The Monsters of Templeton simply reprint the first line of the novel because, well, it’s a doozy of a first line: “The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the 50-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass.” The story’s narrator and protagonist is a 28-year-old woman named Willie Upton, a Stanford doctoral student who is forced to abandon those ambitions just a few months short of completing a PhD in archaeology. The Monsters of Templeton is a 2008 novel by the American author Lauren Groff, who takes autobiographical aspects of her own life and family and weaves them into a genre-busting tale that combines historical fiction, gothic horror, and domestic drama. ![]()
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