Matrix by Lauren Groff

Chiara

“Gay nuns essentially create their own society and it’s less the gayness/love that’s forbidden and more that they’re just really doing their own thing in general that’s forbidden. It is excellllllent.”

Samin

“Co-sign! Just obsessed with Lauren Groff—one of the most masterful American novelists of our time.”

Jessica

“Soooo.. the eternal lit student in me wants to write an analysis comparing Mother Marie and Judge Holden (from Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian). Strikingly similar characters. Both giant, ugly, divinely-touched, mystic, lofty, charismatic and ambitious. The contrast of Holden’s masculine ambition (manifesting as conquest, war, abuse, destruction and ownership) and Marie’s feminine ambition (tende”