Marian McAlpin is an "abnormally normal" young woman, according to her friends. The novel that put the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale on the literary map Margaret Atwood's first novel is both a scathingly funny satire of consumerism and a heady exploration of emotional cannibalism. As the three women plot to confront their larger-than-life nemesis, Atwood proves herself a gleefully acute observer of the treacherous shoals of friendship, trust, desire, and power. But one day, five years after her funeral, they are shocked to catch sight of Zenia: even her death appears to have been yet another fiction. A brilliantly inventive fabulist, Zenia had a talent for exploiting her friends' weaknesses, wielding intimacy as a weapon and cheating them of money, time, sympathy, and men. Roz, Charis, and Tony-university classmates decades ago-were reunited at Zenia's funeral and have met monthly for lunch ever since, obsessively retracing the destructive swath she once cut through their lives.
The glamorous, irresistible, unscrupulous Zenia is nothing less than a fairy-tale villain in the memories of her former friends. One of Margaret Atwood's most unforgettable characters lurks at the center of this intricate novel like a spider in a web. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale
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