ALIAS GRACE : A NOVEL -Doubleday Pb

In Alias Grace, bestselling author Margaret Atwood has written her most captivating, disturbing, and ultimately satisfying into the life of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century. Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer, Thomas Kinnear, and Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders. Dr. Simon Jordan, an up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness, is engaged by a group of reformers and spirituals who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories? Is Grace a female friend? A bloodthirsty femme fatale? Or is she the victim of circumstances? 'A stunning novel full of sly wit, compassion on insight boasting writing that is lyrical, assured, evocative of time and place, and seductive in its power to engage us' -Houston Chronicle-