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is reading "Euphoria" written by Lily King for July/August.
Lily King takes us on an adventure thousands of miles away from civilization. A complex and dangerous three way love triangle set in the 1930’s in Papua New Guinea inspired by the field journals of anthropologist Margaret Mead is at the crux of Lily King’s novel, Euphoria. This fictionalized tale of the lives of three anthropologists: Margaret Mead, Reo Fortune and Gregory Bateson aka Nell Stone, Fen Stone and Andrew Bankson living life stripped bare and on the edge. The book transports the reader to the remote jungles along the Sepik River where the three scientists are studying tribal societies. Lily King won the inaugural $50,000 Kirkus award for fiction. The judges described the novel as “a small gem, disturbing and haunting.” Nell describes the feeling when you think you have a grasp of a culture, ''It's a delusion -- you've only been there eight weeks -- and it's followed by the complete despair of ever understanding anything. But at that moment the place feels entirely yours. It's the briefest, purest euphoria.'' Lily King speaks about Euphoria
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