Ratings18
Average rating3.4
From the author of the New York Times bestselling novels The Handmaid’s Tale—now an Emmy Award-winning Hulu original series—and Alias Grace, now a Netflix original series. Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacing is the story of a talented woman artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec. Setting out with her lover and another young couple, she soon finds herself captivated by the isolated setting, where a marriage begins to fall apart, violence and death lurk just beneath the surface, and sex becomes a catalyst for conflict and dangerous choices. Surfacing is a work permeated with an aura of suspense, complex with layered meanings, and written in brilliant, diamond-sharp prose. Here is a rich mine of ideas from an extraordinary writer about contemporary life and nature, families and marriage, and about women fragmented...and becoming whole.
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Stunning writing from Margaret Atwood in this beautiful, multi-faceted meditation on relationships, memory, and personal identity, as an unnamed female narrator travels with friends to an island in the remote Canadian wilderness in search of her father, who has disappeared without a trace. Perfectly paced and tiptoeing around the supernatural, this is my new favourite Atwood.
2.5 stars, was not what I expected. Very weird and confusing.