![]() Since the novel’s release in September, “Matrix” has climbed the bestseller list and been shortlisted for the National Book Award - Groff’s third nod for the prestigious honor. ![]() But Marie is soon struck with her own mystical visions, leading her to enrich the abbey and transform it into a feminist utopia for her sisters. ![]() The resulting book, “Matrix,” follows 17-year-old Marie as she is cast out of the French royal court and sent to an impoverished abbey. And this new narrative simply demanded her attention. While listening to a colleague’s presentation on medieval nuns, an entire story flashed through Groff’s mind, almost like a mystical vision. ![]() Author Lauren Groff was deep in the weeds on her newest novel, a Robinson Crusoe-esque tale she hoped to finish while a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University a few years ago.īut then her “brain exploded into rainbows,” as she’d tweet later. ![]()
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