Matrix

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDSAN OBAMA'S BOOK OF THE YEARBorn from a long line of female warriors and crusaders, yet too coarse for courtly life, Marie de France is cast from the royal court and sent to Angleterre to take up her new duty as the prioress of an impoverished abbey. Lauren Groff's modern masterpiece is about the establishment of a female utopia.