Lauren Groff’s new novel, her first since Fates and Furies, is a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world. 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?Įqually alive to the sacred and the profane, Matrix gathers currents of violence, sensuality, and religious ecstasy in a mesmerizing portrait of consuming passion, aberrant faith, and a woman that history moves both through and around. All three versions are full of great maps, and the new balances to weapons helps even basic equipment stay relevant for most of the campaigns. Fates ' greatest victim, however, might be its gameplay. 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. Fates tries to be both at once, and the specter of compromise predictably haunts every one of its design decisions. 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. Cast 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.Īt first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since Fates and Furies. Buy at Buy on Barnes and Noble Buy on BAM(Books-A-Million) Buy on Apple Books Buy on Amazon Lauren Groff is the author of four novels: MATRIX, forthcoming in September 2021, and the National Book Award Finalist and winner of the American Booksellers Associations Fiction prize, FATES AND FURIES as well as ARCADIA and THE MONSTERS OF TEMPLETON.

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