I put this on my wish list after seeing one of my GR friends reading it, and I'm so glad I did. Matriarch is intoxicating and atmospheric. It's a tale being told by the titular matriarch to one of her great-granddaughters on her deathbed, about how she met her husband one hundred years ago. It's a story about secrets wrapped in secrets, magic and myth and legend all tangled up in one family's history. I won't talk too much about the plot, and especially the ending, because the way it unfolds is too beautiful to be spoiled but this novella had my heart in my throat the entire time I was reading it. I couldn't put it down for a single second and honestly I screamed when I reached the end of the story.