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How does one of the greatest storytellers of our time write her own life? The long-awaited memoir from one of our most lauded and influential cultural figures and author of
 
The Handmaid's Tale
.
‘Every writer is at least two beings: the one who lives, and the one who writes. Though everything written must have passed through their minds, or mind, they are not the same.’
Raised by ruggedly independent, scientifically minded parents – entomologist father, dietician mother – Atwood spent most of each year in the wild forest of northern Quebec. This childhood was unfettered and nomadic, sometimes isolated (on her eighth birthday: 'It sounds forlorn. It was forlorn. It gets more forlorn.’), but also thrilling and beautiful.
From this unconventional start, Atwood unfolds the story of her life, linking seminal moments to the books that have shaped our literary landscape, from the cruel year that spawned 
Cat’s Eye
 to the Orwellian 1980s Berlin where she wrote 
The Handmaid’s Tale
. In pages bursting with bohemian gatherings, her magical life with the wildly charismatic writer Graeme Gibson and major political turning points, we meet poets, bears, Hollywood actors and larger-than-life characters straight from the pages of an Atwood novel.
As we travel with her along the course of her life, more and more is revealed about her writing, the connections between real life and art – and the workings of one of our greatest imaginations.
Margaret Atwood
 is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. Her novels include 
Cat’s Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, 
and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, 
The Handmaid’s Tale, 
was followed in 2019 by a sequel, 
The Testaments, 
which was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. Atwood has won numerous awards, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN America Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019, she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to litera­ture. She lives in Toronto.
Emma Straub
 is the 
New York Times
 bestselling author of six books for adults: the novels 
This Time Tomorrow
, 
All Adults Here
, 
The Vacationers
, 
Modern Lovers
, 
Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures
, and the short story collection 
Other People We Married
. She is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and her work has been published in more than 20 languages. Emma and her husband own Books Are Magic, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn, New York.
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