Life Before Man
Three people circle each other after a suicide, in a museum that keeps reminding them how briefly any of it will register.
Three people circle one another after a suicide: a woman whose lover has killed himself, her husband, and the colleague he has been seeing. The setting is a Toronto natural history museum, and Atwood keeps returning to the fossils to make her point about how long the record runs and how briefly any of this will register in it.
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