![]() ![]() The novel debuted at number eleven on The New York Times fiction best-seller list for the week ending September 11, 2021. Matrix received very favorable reviews, with a cumulative "Rave" rating at the review aggregator website Book Marks, based on 31 book reviews from mainstream literary critics. sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease." The Observer described it as "a strange and poetic piece of historical fiction set in a dreamlike abbey, the fictional biography of a 12th-century mystic." Within the novel, Marie, whom Groff writes as a lesbian, turns around the abbey's fortunes and treats it as a quasi-mystical female separatist "utopia". ![]() ![]() Groff's fourth novel, Matrix is about a "seventeen-year-old Marie de France. Matrix is a historical novel by Lauren Groff, published by Riverhead Books on September 7, 2021. ![]()
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