AUDIOBOOK

Old Babes in the Wood

Stories

Margaret Atwood
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Duration
8h 45m
Year
2023
Language
English

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From the bestselling, award-winning author of “The Handmaid's Tale” and “The Testaments,” a dazzling collection of short stories that look deeply into the heart of family relationships, marriage, loss and memory, and what it means to spend a life together.

The two intrepid sisters of the title story grapple with loss and memory on a perfect summer evening; "Impatient Griselda" explores alienation and miscommunication with a fresh twist on a folkloric classic; and "My Evil Mother" touches on the fantastical, examining a mother-daughter relationship in which the mother purports to be a witch. At the heart of the collection are seven extraordinary stories that follow a married couple across the decades, the moments big and small that make up a long life of uncommon love, and what comes after.

Returning to short fiction for the first time since her 2014 collection “Stone Mattress,” Atwood showcases both her creativity and her humanity in these remarkable tales which by turns delight, illuminate, and quietly devastate.

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