{"product_id":"alias-grace-9780385475716","title":"Alias Grace","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the astonishing new novel by the author of the bestsellers The Robber Bride  Cats Eye  and The Handmaids Tale  Margaret Atwood takes us back in time and into the life and mind 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  the wealthy Thomas Kinnear  and of Nancy Montgomery  his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence after a stint in Torontos lunatic asylum  Grace herself 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 spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story  from her familys difficult passage out of Ireland into Canada  to her time as a maid in Thomas Kinnears household. As he brings Grace closer and closer to the day she cannot remember  he hears of the turbulent relationship between Kinnear and Nancy Montgomery  and of the alarming behavior of Graces fellow servant  James McDermott. Jordan is drawn to Grace  but he is also baffled by her. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories? Is Grace a female fiend  a bloodthirsty femme fatale? Or is she a victim of circumstances?  Alias Grace is a beautifully crafted work of the imagination that reclaims a profoundly mysterious and disturbing story from the past century. With compassion  an unsentimental lyricism  and her customary narrative virtuosity  Margaret Atwood mines the often convoluted relationships between men and women  and between the affluent and those without position. The result is her most captivating  disturbing  and ultimately satisfying work since The Handmaids Tale--in short  vintage Atwood.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45953158119477,"sku":"ByrdShop_0385475713","price":22.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780385475716.jpg?v=1788180123","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/alias-grace-9780385475716","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}