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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale—now an Emmy Award–winning Hulu original series—and Alias Grace, now a Netflix original series—comes a darkly comic novel about a bored wife, secret novelist, and overnight literary sensation who must fake her own death to escape her tangled web of identities.
Joan Foster is a bored wife confused by her life of multiple identities. She becomes a literary sensation overnight as Canada’s newest superpoet, while also secretly authoring lurid gothic romances on the sly. When a blackmailing reporter threatens to unravel her carefully divided lives, Joan tumbles through menacing schemes, perilous traps, and passionate affairs before fleeing to Terremoto, Italy—but first, she must plan her own death.
Darkly comic, poetic, and enchanting, this unforgettable novel showcases Margaret Atwood at her most imaginative and incisive.
Margaret Atwood
MARGARET ATWOOD, whose work has been published in more than forty-five countries, is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. Her latest novel, The Testaments, is a co-winner of the 2019 Booker Prize. It is the long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, now an award-winning TV series. Her other works of fiction include Cat's Eye, finalist for the 1989 Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; The MaddAddam Trilogy; and Hag-Seed. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Franz Kafka International Literary Prize, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Los Angeles Times Innovator's Award. She lives in Toronto.
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