Euphoria - Lily King

Masterfully embodying a fictional version of the life of Margaret Mead and her second and third husbands, Euphoria shows King at her most skilled as a novelist, revealing the usually bottled emotions of humans as their most primitive desires violently tear through social veneers. A slim volume, this book depicts the heart of an academic discipline, three characters, and the echos of a broken generation within its pages. The Sepik River of the 1930s is reflected in King’s writing: almost physically brutal and yet heartbreakingly rich, transporting you to an older world seen through fresh eyes.