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Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin (2000, Seal Books) 4 stars

More than fifty years on, Iris Chase is remembering Laura's mysterious death. And so begins …

Review of 'The blind assassin' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

No one beats Atwood for a brilliant terrifying dystopia, to the point that I've read many (many!) of Atwood's being-a-well-off-white-woman-in-Canada stories, like The Blind Assassin, looking for the same thrill. It's as if Margaret Atwood is two completely different authors, dependent on her subject matter.

This book was the last white-woman-in-Canada Atwood book I'll try. No more Atwood unless there's a robot on the cover.