Matrix By Lauren Groff

Matrix By Lauren GroffGroff's fourth novel, Matrix is about a "seventeen year old Marie de France sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease."The Observer described it as "a strange and poetic piece of historical fiction set in a dreamlike abbey, the fictional biography of a 12th century mystic." Within the novel, Marie, whom Groff writes as a lesbian, turns around the abbey's fortunes and

every thread you pull in the fabric of everyday life shows you something new about the intricate patterns of our world

and how to defend yourself against them

rather than be used by it

and spying on her neighbors

Venerable Dhammawati risked everything to flee the constraints of an ordinary life and dedicate herself to the freedom of Nibbana

Bestselling author and mystic Om Swami doles out simple yet profound wisdom about the true meaning of happiness in his characteristic light-hearted way

gravitation

'Beguiling

trading in affectations

yet grimly persuasive pages

Lemon’s abilities to manipulate electricity mark her as a deviate

aware of their own intelligence