The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Harper Collins and destiny awaits — and

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The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Harper Collins and destiny awaits — andIris Chase Griffen is nearing the end of her life and is determined to set down her version of the stories and scandals that have long swirled around her and her family. In a narrative that spans the twentieth century, Iris describes a childhood of wealth and privilege darkened by her mothers early death and her fathers alcoholism and ultimately destroyed when the economic and political turmoil of the Depression forces her father to close the familys