Cat’s Eye
A painter returns to Toronto and to the childhood friend whose cruelty shaped her. Atwood on how girls wound each other
A painter, back in Toronto for a retrospective, is pulled into memories of her childhood and of Cordelia, the friend whose casual cruelty shaped who she became. Atwood writes about the way girls wound one another with a precision that few novels attempt, tracing how early power and humiliation echo through an adult life. It is one of her most personal and least forgiving books.
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