Alias Grace
A real 1843 double murder, reimagined: was the servant Grace Marks a monster, a victim, or something no one can name
Based on a real 1843 double murder in Canada, the novel reconstructs the case of Grace Marks, a servant convicted of killing her employer and his housekeeper. A young doctor tries to recover her buried memory, and Atwood keeps the central question open to the last page: was Grace a cold murderer, a manipulated innocent, or something the categories of her time could not hold. A meditation on how women’s guilt gets decided.
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