Surfacing

By: Margaret Atwood

Narrated by: Kim Handysides

From the author of The New York Times best-selling novels The Handmaid’s Tale - now an Emmy Award-winning Hulu original series - and Alias Grace, now a Netflix original series.

Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacing is the story of a talented woman artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec. Setting out with her lover and another young couple, she soon finds herself captivated by the isolated setting, where a marriage begins to fall apart, violence and death lurk just beneath the surface, and sex becomes a catalyst for conflict and dangerous choices.

Surfacing is a work permeated with an aura of suspense, complex with layered meanings, and written in brilliant, diamond-sharp prose. Here is a rich mine of ideas from an extraordinary writer about contemporary life and nature, families and marriage, and about women fragmented...and becoming whole.

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Hit and miss

I’m an Atwood fan, and this had elements of what her fans love: dystopian storylines and social commentary.

But the plot? Was there one?

The ending? I have no idea.

Not sure where this book was going

I won’t say it was a waste of time. Mostly I was sitting in traffic as I listened. No where as superlative as the handmaid‘s tale, and left me wondering what the great mystery was all about.

Engaging, but not her best work.

She spent a lot of time getting into the details of each character, but very little time about her searching for her father and the outcome.

YAWN!

The most boring book I have ever encountered. I kept waiting for something to occur. Nope. Start to finish was a snoozer. Save your 8 hours!
**Narrator had a lovely voice :)

Very confusing..

I found myself very lost throughout the book. I really wanted to like the story as I had with Margaret’s other work, but I found that this book never really reached a climax. My first thought at the end was... “What was the point of all of this?!”