From the author of Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff’s new novel, Matrix is a timely and defiant work that explores the raw power of female creativity in a corrupt world. The novel follows seventeen-year-old Marie de France who is cast out of royal court and sent to live in England to be the new prioress of an abbey that is falling apart. The nuns are on the brink of starvation and are plagued by disease. At first, Marie is taken aback by the severity but soon she finds her passion, determined to chart a new pathway for the women she is now leading.