{"product_id":"matrix-9781594634499","title":"Matrix","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by\u003ci\u003e Time, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Vulture, The Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, and more.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eOne of our best American writers, Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking \u003ci\u003eFates and Furies\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCast 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Equally alive to the sacred and the profane, \u003ci\u003eMatrix\u003c\/i\u003e 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. Lauren Groff's new novel, her first since \u003ci\u003eFates and Furies\u003c\/i\u003e, is a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Riverhead Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/07\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781594634499\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.34h x 6.37w x 0.97d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/21\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/05\/2021 pg. 40\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lauren Groff","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40721630560437,"sku":"9781594634499","price":23.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b2e9db21-e742-46b1-82da-69a99b3f9e49.jpg?v=1628607289","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/matrix-9781594634499","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}