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90/100Author:
Margaret Atwood
Publisher:
Doubleday
Date:
March 1, 2022
In more than fifty pieces, Atwood aims her intellect and humor at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds. This roller-coaster period brought the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump, and a pandemic. From debt to tech, the climate crisis to freedom; from when to dispense advice to the young (answer: only when asked) to how to define granola, we have no better guide to the many and varied mysteries of our universe.
What The Reviewers Say
Burning Questions is a canny title for Margaret Atwood’s new book of essays and occasional pieces. It reflects both the urgency of the issues dear to her...and their combustibility, the risk that in writing about them she might get burned.
Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to collect their PEN International speeches between hard covers.
One of the most notable aspects of this collection is how engaged Atwood, now 82, has remained with the pressing issues of the day.
She narrates her work, like a dressmaker with pins in her mouth chatting while she does a fitting. Sartor resarta.
