Name: Untitled Novel
ISBN: 9781785151903

Lauren Groff

Untitled Novel

jiaqi kang

talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before

now one of my favorite books ever. it has lesbians and ecocriticism and the bitches are crazyyyyyyy I LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH THANK YOU LAUREN GROFF YOUR PURPLE PROSE WORKS SO WELL FOR THIS SETTING IT'S ICKY AND AMAZING

Moray Lyle McIntosh

Utterly spellbinding. Groff plunges her readers into a 12th century ecclesiastical English world as Marie de France, a bastard child of the French and English courts is shipped to a failing, starving nunnery. Marie's faith in limited but her resentment and her imagination are unbounded. Even as she pours her hatred and bitterness into the place her intelligence and ambition transform it into a thriving, powerful community of women. She becomes their leader, mother and protector, her unorthodox visions alternately empowering and endangering their way of life. Groff writes with a crispness and clarity that brings her world and her characters to live in vivid detail and it's not every author who could maintain such a grip on her readers with so little direct speech. Matrix is a powerful story of women's place in the world, now and then, and the ability of determined women to carve places for themselves even within society's strict constraints. I loved it.