Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin
I had a yen to reread some Atwood novels--it's been so long since I read this one that my blog didn't even exist yet! It was a bit slower than I remembered, but not in a bad way--more of a meditative way. It's the story of an elderly woman, who's writing her life story, interspersed with excerpts of the famous novel her sister wrote before killing herself. It's moving and compelling, with vibrant characters and a dry sense of humor, and gets at issues of feminism, and aging, and injustice, and families of all kinds. I'll definitely be revisiting more of Atwood's earlier works.
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