![]() Willie returns to her childhood digs following an ill-fated affair with her archeology professor in the final months of her degree research. The others are considerably more real and less benign. However, we soon come to find that he is not the only monster to have haunted Templeton over the years. Glimmey, as are many things in Willie's life, was as beloved as he was mysterious, less a figure of fear than of awe and wonder. This sad and lovely touch of magical realism sets the story's tone: sweet and slightly wry, poignant yet beautifully understated. ![]() When his corpse rises to the surface one bright summer morning, at almost the exact moment when 28-year-old Wilhemina Upton returns to her ancestral home on the lake's shores, it turns the entire town of Templeton, N.Y., upside down. In Lauren Groff's lively and poetic debut novel "The Monsters of Templeton," the first beast we encounter is Glimmey, the 50-foot mythical monster reputed to have lived in glacial Lake Glimmerglass for decades. ![]()
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