Surfacing
A search for a missing father in the Quebec bush turns into a woman shedding language, company and her own assembled self.
A woman returns to the remote Quebec island where she grew up, ostensibly to look for her missing father, accompanied by her lover and another couple. What begins as a search becomes a shedding: of language, of company, of the version of herself she had assembled in the city. Published in 1972, it stays the most feral thing Atwood has written.
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