Marigold and Rose

Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from the Nobel laureate Louise Glück. “Marigold was absorbed in her book; she had gotten as far as the V.” So begins Marigold and Rose , Louise Glück’s astonishing chronicle of the first year in the life of twin girls. Imagine a fairy tale that is also a multigenerational saga; a piece for two hands that is also a symphony; a poem that is also, in the spirit of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis , an incandescent act of autobiography. Here are the