Cat's Eye
by Margaret Atwood · 1988
Difficulty
advanced
Length
long
Reading Time
11–14 hours
About the Book
Elaine Risley, a painter returning to Toronto for a retrospective of her work, confronts childhood memories of friendship, cruelty, art, shame, and survival.
Why You Should Read It
Read it for one of Atwood's most powerful explorations of girlhood, memory, artistic identity, and the wounds that remain beneath adult life.
Who This Book Is For
Ideal for readers who enjoy literary coming-of-age stories, complex female friendships, memory-driven narratives, and emotionally layered fiction.
About the Author
Margaret Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, essayist, and literary critic whose work explores power, gender, memory, survival, and the fragile edges of society. Her fiction moves between literary realism, historical fiction, speculative fiction, and dystopian imagination.
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