Lauren Groff
2) Matrix
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
2021 National Book Award Longlists, Finalists, & WINNERS
2022 Audie Awards
Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021
Staff Picks: Women's History Month (Adult)
2022 Audie Awards
Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021
Staff Picks: Women's History Month (Adult)
Description
"Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily...
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
From a Nigerian boy's friendship with his family's former houseboy to a sweatshop girl's experience as a sister wife, from love and murder on the frontier to a meltdown in academe, these stories have the economy and power to "break hearts bones vanities and cages."