In Wilderness Tips, Margaret Atwood explores the distance between the lives we imagine for ourselves and the lives we ultimately inhabit. Across ten stories of love, friendship, betrayal, memory, and loss, her characters confront the persistence of the past and the private desires and regrets that can remain hidden beneath seemingly ordinary lives. Atwood has a remarkable gift for finding the moment when something familiar becomes strange: a friendship altered by an old disappearance, a marriage unsettled by desire, a memory that refuses to stay buried. Moving from the vulnerabilities of youth into the complicated terrain of middle age, these stories are psychologically acute, darkly funny, and often quietly disturbing. Together they reveal how time reshapes our relationships with others—and with the less familiar parts of ourselves.
Editorial Reviews
"Dazzling." —The New York Times
"Atwood's voice, honed after writing such books as Lady Oracleand The Handmaid's Tale,is sharper than ever, but still funny...It whispers that the wilderness is right here, right now." —San Francisco Chronicle
About the Author
Margaret Atwood, whose work has been published in thirty-five countries, is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. In addition to The Handmaid’s Tale, her novels include Cat’s Eye, short-listed 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; Oryx and Crake, short-listed for the 2003 Man Booker Prize; The Year of the Flood; and her most recent, MaddAddam. She is the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Innovator’s Award, and lives in Toronto with the writer Graeme Gibson.
