Divided into three sections, the collection brings together stories of marital life, coping with the death of a long-time partner, and, sci-fi, each with enthralling imaginative possibilities
Margaret Atwood’s first fiction since 2019’s Booker Prize winning The Testaments and her first story collection since Stone Mattress (2014), these fifteen stories are a master class in how to write, a rollicking good time, and a deep exploration of human relationships—the damage we do to each other and the ways we come together.
The collection is nothing if not various, and it provides ample runway, in its myriad surfaces and angles, for Atwood to show herself as nothing if not vital and virtuosic.
They don’t come in with any particular regularity. The ping or buzz could alert me at any day or time. But whenMargaret Atwood’s newsletter “In the Writing Burrow” drops into