Lily King’s Euphoria

With the success of Lily King's WRITERS & LOVERS this summer, I’ve picked up her novel EUPHORIA from 2014. A meticulously researched and thinly veiled account of Margaret Mead’s 1933 trip to New Guinea, the novel delves into the love triangle between Mead  (or Nell in the book), her husband, and another anthropologist they meet on their trip. In addition to the rich and complicated characters, the details about Mead’s work are so thorough and transporting that it reads like the juiciest anthropology lesson you’ve ever had.