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"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.

- Margaret Atwood - Author
- Margaret Atwood - Narrator
- Linda Lavin - Narrator
- Dan Stevens - Narrator
- Kimberly Farr - Narrator
- Rebecca Lowman - Narrator
- Bahni Turpin - Narrator
- Dawn Harvey - Narrator
- Allan Corduner - Narrator
OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780593666593
- File size: 251615 KB
- Release date: March 7, 2023
- Duration: 08:44:11

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"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.

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Books on Tape
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UnabridgedOverDrive Listen audiobook
ISBN: 9780593666593
File size: 251615 KB
Release date: March 7, 2023
Duration: 08:44:11
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Creators
- Margaret Atwood - Author
- Margaret Atwood - Narrator
- Linda Lavin - Narrator
- Dan Stevens - Narrator
- Kimberly Farr - Narrator
- Rebecca Lowman - Narrator
- Bahni Turpin - Narrator
- Dawn Harvey - Narrator
- Allan Corduner - Narrator
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
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English
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