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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