The Blind Assassin

Summary

Elderly Iris Chase looks back on a Canadian century of privilege and ruin, framed around her sister Laura's mysterious death and a pulpy science-fiction romance attributed to Laura. Atwood layers a memoir, a novel-within-the-novel, and newspaper clippings into a single intricate machine that gradually reveals its secrets. The result is a meditation on storytelling, sisterhood, and the unreliable nature of the past.