![]() ![]() The nuns at the time, especially the Benedictine ones, had a very frequence (ph) process of praying halfway through the day, and the night, also. GROFF: It's a tough life, but it's a beautiful life. SIMON: Lauren Groff, a two-time National Book Award finalist and author of "Arcadia," "Fates And Furies" and other books, joins us now from Gainesville, Fla. Lucy (ph), of whom, in desperation, she molded a wax votive with her good hand and let it melt on a hot stone while praying. ![]() ![]() In June, a miracle, and Felisa (ph), whose half body had frozen after she stepped over copulating snakes, awakens, having regained the use of her frozen face and hand and only limps with a single unwilling leg now. In the abbeys, sleepy without its souls, a mother vixen with heavy teats trots out of the cellar, dragging a whole dried sturgeon. Rains come in the night, and the wet earth bursts to green. ![]() The nuns take pauses in the greater work to sow the wheat to plant the gardens. LAUREN GROFF: (Reading) At night, the heavens spin into their summer constellations. Lauren Groff, could you please set the scene of a summer there? Lauren Groff, one of America's most acclaimed contemporary novelists, has set her new book "Matrix" in medieval times in a nun's abbey, presided over by Marie of France, who's banished there when she's 17. ![]()
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