Surfacing
Surfacing is the story of a talented woman artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec. Setting out with her lover and another young couple, she soon finds herself captivated by the isolated setting, where a marriage begins to fall apart, violence and death lurk just beneath the surface, and sex becomes a catalyst for conflict and dangerous choices.
Stats for nerds
1recommend
2mentions
2people
2023–2025years
50% recommend50% neutral
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What Hacker News says
- I'd recommend anyone who liked the "perspective character experiencing mental illness" aspects of this check out Atwood's Surfacing.
- Hot garbage is a big overstatement, but I'd agree that its fame has more to do with hitting a nerve than with its being a remarkably good book. I'd personally probably put it at the bottom of the Atwood novels I've read—but, at the same time, might well recommend it first to many people coming to Atwood, today. It's not bad, it's "hot" right now, and it's not a challenging read (unlike, say, Surfacing)
