Name: Matrix - Lauren Groff
Brand: Lauren Groff
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nAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER nWINNER OF THE 2022 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE n n FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION n nOne of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021 n nNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, The Financial Times, Good Housekeeping, Esquire, Vulture, Marie Claire, Vox, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today and more! n nA relentless exhibition of Groff's freakish talent. In just over 250 pages, she gives us a character study to rival Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell . - USA Today n n An electric reimagining . . . feminist, sensual . . . unforgettable. - O, The Oprah Magazine n n Thrilling and heartbreaking. -Time Magazine n n [A] page-by-page pleasure as we soar with her. -New York Times n n One of our best American writers, Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furies. n nCast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. n n At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily supplants her desire for family, for her homeland, for the passions of her youth with something new to her: devotion to her siste