Bodily Harm, Margaret Atwood (3.0)
Unfortunately this is one of my least favorite Margaret
Atwood books, but that still puts it above many other authors. This book was
published in 1981, so it’s one of her earlier novels. It follows a young
Canadian woman journalist to a Caribbean island. She is recovering from breast
cancer surgery and is trying to find herself. In doing so, she innocently
wanders into a sleepy island’s political revolution. The narrative swings back
and forth between her time on the island and her remembrances of her sickness,
operation and post op feelings with a focus on the relationships in her life.
As the story progresses, the mystery of who the people are and what is really
happening on the island take over. I found the plot different and interesting
and the characters thoughtful, though not as thought provoking as most of Ms.
Atwood’s books are for me.
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