Amazon Editorial Review:
In 1843, a 16-year-old Canadian housemaid named Grace Marks was tried for the murder of her employer and his mistress. The sensationalistic trial made headlines throughout the world, and the jury delivered a guilty verdict. Yet opinion remained fiercely divided about Marks--was she a spurned woman who had taken out her rage on two innocent victims, or was she an unwilling victim herself, caught up in a crime she was too young to understand? Such doubts persuaded the judges to commute her sentence to life imprisonment, and Marks spent the next 30 years in an assortment of jails and asylums, where she was often exhibited as a star attraction. In Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood reconstructs Marks's story in fictional form. Her portraits of 19th-century prison and asylum life are chilling in their detail. The author also introduces Dr. Simon Jordan, who listens to the prisoner's tale with a mixture of sympathy and disbelief. In his effort to uncover the truth, Jordan uses the tools of the then rudimentary science of psychology. But the last word belongs to the book's narrator--Grace herself.

This was my first Atwood and I wonder what took me so long to read her. I still don't know what to think about Grace. This story will stay with me a long time.

I will offer this up in Marysgirl historic fiction VBB.

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Sent to Waterfalling for the historical fiction VBB by Marysgirl. I hope you enjoy as much as I did!

Arrived with the morning mail. Will try to tackle shortly.

*Finally* got around to this one. Loved the structure of the storytelling and how the story unfolded. My second Atwood read - The Handmaid's Tale being the first - and have a pile of Atwoods in my TBR (which will be read). Hope to pass on to another reader shortly.

Sent for personal or OBCZ use.

Thanks so much for sending this, Waterfalling. I've read a couple of Atwoods, The Handmaid's Tale years ago, and just recently, Lady Oracle. Since you sent me so many good books, including several wishlists' this one will soon be going to the OBCZ. Thanks to lynlee4, also!

Taking this to our Sunday BC meet. If no one takes it, it'll be left on the bookshelf in the back.

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I picked up this book along with Suite Francaise at Birdie's cafe last week. Most of the novels along the bookshelf failed to pique my interest, and I almost returned to my table. But, at the last second, I recognized Atwood in its copper lettering. Such great quality for having been in Florida at one point! I've read The Handmaid's Tale, and my mother has read a number of her works. I hope to complete the novel by early-mid December.