This novel could be subtitled "The Secret Life of Girls." Atwood states the work is about how girlhood traumas continue into adult life. My question is, how did she remember so much from her childhood? Or did she observe children while writing this? She also stated this novel had the most autobiographical elements of all her novels. It does share some common details with "Surfacing", one of her earliest novels: the girl that spends her summers in the North woods, that has difficulty relating to other girls during the school year.
The novel is excellent, and very convincing. Highly recommended.
[...] have to compare it to Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood. Atwood actually wraps the story of the young girl coming of age in a frame of the girl as an [...]
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