Matrix-Groff’s first novel since her 2015 hit Fates and Furies-imagines the story of a nun who was temperamentally very different from Benedetta but also a real-life figure, the 12th-century poet Marie de France. As deceitful come-ons go, you’ve got to admit that’s ingenious. Brown relates in her 1986 study Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy-which Verhoeven used as a source-Sister Benedetta Carlini lured her fellow sister into sin by claiming that the poor girl was actually having sex with an angel named Splenditello, who had morphed into Benedetta’s form. Nuns are hot this season: cinema provocateur Paul Verhoeven’s soon-to-be released Benedetta tells the-true!-story of a lesbian nun in early 17th-century Italy, a sister who experienced wild religious visions but who also used her status as a mystic to coerce a fellow nun into sexual relations. 7, and Claire Luchette’s Agatha of Little Neon, which arrived in August, peek behind the veil to surmise what nuns might be thinking about when no one but God is listening in-and provide a glimpse into the doubts and changes of heart that sometimes turn these brides of Christ into divorcees. What draws a woman to this type of sisterhood? And are their friendships and rivalries so different from our own? Two new novels, Lauren Groff’s Matrix, coming Sept. The sisters were often fun and always kind.
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