Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021, Hardcover/Margaret Atwood

This brilliant selection of essays--funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient--seeks answers to Burning Questions such as: - Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? - 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 over fifty pieces Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humor at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds. The roller-coaster period covered in the collection brought an end to the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump and a pandemic. From debt to tech, the climate crisis to freedom, from when to dispense advice to the young (answer: only when asked) and how to define granola, we have no better guide than Atwood to the many and varied mysteries of our universe. About author(s): Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye , The Robber Bride , Alias Grace , The Blind Assassin , and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale , was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments , which was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published Dearly , her first collection of poetry for a decade. Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.