Matrix

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Time Entertainment Weekly Buzzfeed Elle Harper s Bazaar Vulture The Guardian and moreOne of our best American writers Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and FuriesCast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine deemed too coarse and roughhewn for marriage or courtly life seventeenyearold 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 diseaseAt 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 sisters and a conviction in her own divine visions Marie born the last in a long line of women warriors and crusaders is determined to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects But in a world that is shifting and corroding in frightening ways one that can never reconcile itself with her existence will the sheer force of Marie s vision be bulwark enough