{"title":"Romance","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. In this crucible, Marie steadily supplants her desire for family, for her homeland, for the passions of her youth with something new to her: devotion to her sisters, and a conviction in her own divine visions. Marie, born the last in a long line of women warriors and crusaders, is determined to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects. But in a world that is shifting and corroding in frightening ways, one that can never reconcile itself with her existence, will the sheer force of Marie’s vision be bulwark enough?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEqually alive to the sacred and the profane, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMatrix\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e gathers currents of violence, sensuality, and religious ecstasy in a mesmerizing portrait of consuming passion, aberrant faith, and a woman that history moves both through and around. 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":"fates-and-furies","title":"Fates and Furies","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\"\u003eA FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eONE OF \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTHE ATLANTIC\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e’S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTHE WASHINGTON POST, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNPR,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e TIME, THE SEATTLE TIMES, MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSLATE,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e LIBRARY JOURNAL, KIRKUS,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e AND MANY MORE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lauren Groff is a writer of rare gifts, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFates and Furies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e is an unabashedly ambitious novel that delivers – with comedy, tragedy, well-deployed erudition and unmistakable glimmers of brilliance throughout.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e (cover review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the award-winning, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ebestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFlorida, Matrix, a\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003end the highly-anticipated \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Vaster Wilds:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFates and Furies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At the core of this rich, expansive, layered novel, Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love, and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but with an electric thrill we understand that things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed. With stunning revelations and multiple threads, and in prose that is vibrantly alive and original, Groff delivers a deeply satisfying novel about love, art, creativity, and power that is unlike anything that has come before it. 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