The Monsters of Templeton is a fresh, virtuoso performance that has placed Lauren Groff among the best writers of today. In the end, dark secrets come to light, past and present day are blurred, and old mysteries are finally put to rest. After a shocking revelation from her mother, Willie begins a research project to try to discover the identity of her father. The story follows Wilhelmina Willie Upton, a 28-year-old graduate student who is visiting her hometown of Templeton, New York. The beautiful, broody Willie is told that the key to her biological father's identity lies somewhere in her family's history, so she buries herself in the research of her twisted family tree and finds more than she bargained for as a chorus of voices from the town's past - some sinister, all fascinating - rise up around her to tell their side of the story. The Monsters of Templeton is a novel by Lauren Groff. Upon her arrival, a prehistoric monster surfaces in the lake bringing a feeding frenzy to the quiet town, and Willie learns she has a mystery father her mother kept secret Willie's entire life. In the wake of a disastrous love affair with her older, married archaeology professor at Stanford, brilliant Wilhelmina Cooper arrives back at the doorstep of her hippie mother-turned-born-again-Christian's house in Templeton, NY, a storybook town her ancestors founded that sits on the shores of Lake Glimmerglass. 'The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass.' So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part a contemporary story of a girl's search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story. Product Details ISBN: 9781401340926 Binding: Trade Paperback Publication date: Publisher: HYPERION BOOKS Pages: 368 Height: 1.00IN Width: 5.30IN Thickness: 1.

The monsters of templeton