What: Through crossover plot lines, alternating narrators, and flashbacks, The Robber Bride tells the story of the intersecting lives of four women. Roz is a brash and successful company president, Charis is a meek and vulnerable clerk at a New Age store, and Tony is a serious and diligent professor of military history. In one way or another, Zenia has destroyed a part of each of them, taking their men as loot while she's at it. And she keeps coming back . . .
Comparable to: The title of The Robber Bride is taken from a Grimm story, and that's just the beginning of Margaret Atwood's dark fairy tale allusions.
Representative quote: "From the street her room must look like a lighthouse, a beacon. Warm and cheerful and safe. But towers have other uses. She could empty boiling oil out the left-hand window, get a dead hit on anyone standing at the front door."
You might not like it if: Maybe you hate women. Or Canada.
How to get it: Not Kindle-able, but otherwise pretty available. Also, a movie adaptation of this aired on CBC, but I haven't been able to bring myself to watch it. I mean, I like and respect Amanda Root and Mary Louise Parker a lot, but for an intricate and nuanced novel that's 500+ pages and spans three decades, the scope of "TV movie" seems a bit . . . off.
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