Burning Questions

In this brilliant selection of essays the award-winning best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments offers her funny erudite endlessly curious and uncannily prescient take on everything from whether or not The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopia to the importance of how to define granola—and seeks answers to Burning Questions such as... Why do people everywhere in all cultures tell stories? Including thoughts on the writing of The Handmaid’s Tale The Testaments Oryx & Crake and Atwood's other beloved works. How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? How can we live on our planet? Is it true? And is it fair? What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism?In more than fifty pieces Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humor at the world and reports back to us on what she finds. This roller-coaster period brought the end of history a financial crash the rise of Trump and a pandemic. From when to dispense advice to the young (answer: only when asked) to Atwood’s views on the climate crisis we have no better guide to the many and varied mysteries of our universe.