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‘Arcadia’ by Lauren Groff

There was something noble about the communitarian experiments of the ’60s, those concatenations of midwives, naturists, grubby children, and burn-outs. Yet the whole idea remains mildly repellent. Of course these would-be utopias are especially fertile ground for literature. And so it’s to the commune that Lauren Groff goes in “Arcadia,’’ her second novel.

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