NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the bestselling, award-winning author of
The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, a dazzling collection of
short stories that look deeply into the heart of family relationships,
marriage, loss and memory, and what it means to spend a life together
"If you consider yourself an Atwood fan and have only read her novels:
Get your act together. You've been missing out." --The New York Times
Book Review, Rebecca Makkai, best-selling author of The Great
Believers
Margaret Atwood has established herself as one of the most visionary and
canonical authors in the world. This collection of fifteen extraordinary
stories--some of which have appeared in The New Yorker and The New
York Times Magazine--explore the full warp and weft of experience,
speaking to our unique times with Atwood's characteristic insight, wit
and intellect.
The two intrepid sisters of the title story grapple with loss and memory
on a perfect summer evening; "Impatient Griselda" explores alienation
and miscommunication with a fresh twist on a folkloric classic; and "My
Evil Mother" touches on the fantastical, examining a mother-daughter
relationship in which the mother purports to be a witch. At the heart of
the collection are seven extraordinary stories that follow a married
couple across the decades, the moments big and small that make up a long
life of uncommon love--and what comes after.
Returning to short fiction for the first time since her 2014 collection
Stone Mattress, Atwood showcases both her creativity and her humanity
in these remarkable tales which by turns delight, illuminate, and
quietly devastate.
