{"title":"Historical Fiction","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"matrix","title":"Matrix","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOne of our best American writers, and a\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003euthor of the highly anticipated THE VASTER WILDS, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLauren Groff returns with this exhilarating and groundbreaking novel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCast 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. 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Lauren Groff’s new novel, her first since \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFates and Furies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, is a defiant and timely exploration of the raw power of female creativity in a corrupted world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Fern","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":58440630239313,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/1401\/6081\/files\/matrix-paperback.jpg?v=1764895832"},{"product_id":"the-vaster-wilds","title":"The Vaster Wilds","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 24px;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAN INSTANT\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTIME, ESQUIRE, VOGUE, LA TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, SLATE, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eHARPER'S BAZAAR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e and others\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e “Part historical, part horror, part breathless thriller, part wilderness survival tale, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Vaster Wilds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e is a story about the lengths to which we will go to stay alive.\"—NPR staff pick \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“Lauren Groff just reinvented the adventure novel.\"—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eGlorious…surroundings come alive in prose that lives and breathes upon the page.\" —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited girl alone in the wilderness, trying to survive\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLauren Groff’s new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a new way of living in a world succumbing to the churn of colonialism. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Vaster Wilds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a work of raw and prophetic power that tells the story of America in miniature, through one girl at a hinge point in history, to ask how—and if—we can adapt quickly enough to save ourselves.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Fern","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":58440630796369,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":58440630829137,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/1401\/6081\/files\/the-vaster-wilds-paperback.jpg?v=1764895833"},{"product_id":"arcadia","title":"Arcadia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA staggering portrait of a crumbling utopia, this \"timeless and vast\" novel filled with the \"raw beauty\" beautifully depicts an idyllic commune in New York State -- and charts its eventual yet inevitable downfall (Janet Maslin, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Timeless and vast... 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