She and Mathilde are instantly set against one another. Antoinette, however, is furious that her son would marry without her knowledge. They are all proven wrong as the marriage grows stronger over time. This surprises their friends, who believe it will only be a matter of time before they are divorced. They quickly fall in love and do very well at marriage. Mathilde, who barely knows of Lotto, agrees to marry him. Instead, he asks her to marry him, determined to completely change his life for her. In college, reeling from the overdose death of Gwennie, Lotto decides to commit suicide but stops when he sees Mathilde. Mathilde deals with her issues by shutting others out. Lotto befriends twins Chollie and Gwennie, and a gay Asian boy named Michael, all of whom get Lotto into drugs. Mathilde is raised by her uncle in America after her parents abandon her following an accident where, at four years old, she opened a door to allow her toddler brother to leave the bedroom he was napping in, only to fall down the stairs, break his neck, and die. Following the death of their father, Lotto and his little sister Rachel are raised by their mother, Antoinette, and by their paternal aunt, Sallie. Lotto and Mathilde first meet in college. “Fates and Furies” is a literary fiction novel by Lauren Groff which follows the marriage, love, and trials of Lotto and Mathilde Satterwhite.
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