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Matrix lauren6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Over the next six decades, Marie relinquishes her grip on one kind of happiness (Westminster, Eleanor) to catch hold of another (her work, the hundreds of women who depend on it). She leaves behind not just the glamorous English court, but also her love: Eleanor of Aquitaine, the most powerful woman in the world, Henry’s wife. ![]() We meet Marie, the half-acknowledged half-sister of King Henry II, as she is departing for the abbey where she will spend the rest of her life. However, this plot synopsis does not do justice to the whimsy, empathy, and urgency that saturate the novel’s pages. Its premise is simple: the life of a medieval nun, the story of a rebellious teenager’s transformation into a respected spiritual leader. Like Fates and Furies, Groff’s new novel, Matrix, is full of surprises. Lauren Groff’s 2015 novel Fates and Furies-a finalist for the National Book Award, among other honors-is ostensibly about a marriage, but on closer inspection it’s about something thornier, unsettling in its very banality: the difficulty of knowing another person at all. ![]()
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