The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

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The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
(Audio)
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5302985

Fascinating. I guessed early on about things but then thought myself out of them as I was listening, only to find out at the end I was right to begin with. Still, there were some things that caught me off guard and surprised me.

I didn't absolutely LOVE this book and I'm not sure why. It reminded me a few times of Cat's Eye so that threw me off (since that wasn't my favorite book ever). But the dramatization was delightful, dramatic, and emotional. I really felt for and worried for the characters (more than one I was also quite angry with them). I wasn't thrilled at first with of the book-within-the-book (I suppose I hadn't really been expecting the sci-fi setting in it) but I can certainly respect the metafiction technique when used this well and the parallels were certainly easy to draw. I love how revealing fiction can be in this book and within this book. Reminded me of Jessamyn West's quote, "Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures."