Alias Grace

While I do admire Atwood's writing, and the language here is superb, the story she's telling in the novel leaves me cold, and not just because she's constrained by certain known historical facts. Or maybe that's exactly the problem. We never really know Grace's state of mind at the time of the killings the ultimate fate of Dr. Jordon is also unclear, presumably because these are real historical figures and Atwood didn't feel she could invent those details. The result, it seems to me, is an incomplete narrative that I find unsatisfying.