Author:
Narrator: Kim Handysides
Format: Unabridged-MP3, Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Audible Studios on Brilliance
Published: Feb 2019
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General
Retail Price: $14.99
Discs: 1
From the author of The New York Times best-selling novels The Handmaid's Tale - now an Emmy Award-winning Hulu original series - and Alias Grace, now a Netflix original series.
Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacing is the story of a talented woman artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec. Setting out with her lover and another young couple, she soon finds herself captivated by the isolated setting, where a marriage begins to fall apart, violence and death lurk just beneath the surface, and sex becomes a catalyst for conflict and dangerous choices.
Surfacing is a work permeated with an aura of suspense, complex with layered meanings, and written in brilliant, diamond-sharp prose. Here is a rich mine of ideas from an extraordinary writer about contemporary life and nature, families and marriage, and about women fragmented...and becoming whole.
I am struggling through this book, and have almost reached the end. The story so far has not come together, and the characters are strange, but trying to figure them out is tedious. The author seems to be as lost as they are. This in no way compares to Atwood's Alias Grace, and Surfacing is a huge disappointment.