This book is dream-like. In the weeks I read it, my world became animated with Atwood's narrator, and her vivid and cynical view of life. It is self-consciously narrated, but elegant too. I dropped half a star because I found some passages overly gruelling, melodramatic, or repetitive in their use of certain descriptive structures. But ultimately this book has changed me as a person and I reccomend it to those who wish to delve more deeply into womanhood and the complexities of memory.