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My Evil Mother: A Short Story by [Margaret Atwood]

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A #1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestseller.

A bittersweet short story about mothers, daughters, and the witches’ brew of love—and control—that binds them, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments.

Life is hard enough for a teenage girl in 1950s suburbia without having a mother who may—or may not—be a witch. A single mother at that. Sure, she fits in with her starched dresses, string of pearls, and floral aprons. Then there are the hushed and mystical consultations with neighborhood women in distress. The unsavory, mysterious plants in the flower beds. The divined warning to steer clear of a boyfriend whose fate is certainly doomed. But as the daughter of this bewitching homemaker comes of age and her mother’s claims become more and more outlandish, she begins to question everything she once took for granted.

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1 April 2022
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“There’s a perfect balance of silliness and poignancy in My Evil Mother, which is really a story about the fantasies we never give up about our mothers…What loving mother wouldn’t cast a spell of protection around her children if she could?” —Ron Charles, Washington Post

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Margaret Atwood is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels, including The Handmaid’s Tale and its sequel, The Testaments, cowinner of the 2019 Booker Prize. Among her other numerous awards: the Franz Kafka International Literary Prize, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Los Angeles Times Innovator’s Award. She lives in Toronto.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09T971KPQ
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Amazon Original Stories (1 April 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 5951 KB
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- 1 in Fantasy Anthologies (Books)
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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, went back into the bestseller charts with the election of Donald Trump, when the Handmaids became a symbol of resistance against the disempowerment of women, and with the 2017 release of the award-winning Channel 4 TV series. ‘Her sequel, The Testaments, was published in 2019. It was an instant international bestseller and won the Booker Prize.’

Atwood has won numerous awards including the Booker Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade and the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award. 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.

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s.williams

great read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 April 2022

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It reminded me of my mother whom at 15yrs l thought was a witch as always was one foot in front of shenanigans. Later found out she had her reading my diary.

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loz

Wrong title

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 April 2022

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I love a short story. It’s such a lovely brain refresh after reading mammoth books (pachinko I loved you but …) and I must admit although a charming story I do have issues with this little one.

Firstly let’s start with a plus, the writing style is great. It’s fluid , easy to read and you can read completely relaxed .
But my big issue, the title. From the title I expected something dark, tense and gripping but I found myself just reading a charming book which isn’t what I hoped for.
My expectations from the title were set completely wrong and had me set up for some thing completely different.
I wish this had been titled different, even just a title like ‘the mother’ would have been so much more improved.

I would happily recomend but it comes with a warning not to expect a tense exciting rollercoaster but instead a mild cup of tea ☕️

Firstly let’s start with a plus, the writing style is great. It’s fluid , easy to read and you can read completely relaxed .
But my big issue, the title. From the title I expected something dark, tense and gripping but I found myself just reading a charming book which isn’t what I hoped for.
My expectations from the title were set completely wrong and had me set up for some thing completely different.
I wish this had been titled different, even just a title like ‘the mother’ would have been so much more improved.

I would happily recomend but it comes with a warning not to expect a tense exciting rollercoaster but instead a mild cup of tea ☕️

24 people found this helpful

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Mrs Carolyn Andrews

Mothers and Daughters!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 April 2022

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Where do I start with this? (I don't want to write any spoilers)
"Typical Atwood Brilliance"? That would be a good place to start.

Above all, Margaret Atwood writes about the human condition and she ALWAYS leaves you guessing and that is just as true with this offering:
It may be small, but it's a real gem.

10 people found this helpful

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getting into reading

Warming tale of mispent mother daughter relations

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 May 2022

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I liked everything about this book and wanted to know more about all of these magnificent women!
I may lend this to all the important women in my life!
What a rare treat to read a book with this warm tone, yet meandering along the long ferrel line of a life so very full of pain. A great feat of writing here.

8 people found this helpful

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sue

What witch

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 April 2022

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I loved this short story, it reminded me of my own mother she always said she flew on her broomstick at full moon, even now we say look out for mum she'll be out flying. Thank you for a reminise.

9 people found this helpful

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Daisy Hollands

Left me wanting more

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 April 2022

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I so enjoyed this book. I would describe it as a novella as it was such a quick and easy read. I was disappointed to get to the end, I definitely wanted more. I hope the characters could appear in a full length novel sometime. I would buy that in a heartbeat.

7 people found this helpful

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law

very enjoyable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 April 2022

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I really enjoyed this book The story line is unusual and keeps your attention throughout I was sorry to finish it

7 people found this helpful

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Entertaining

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 May 2022

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This short piece by Margaret Atwood, whilst not the best thing she has ever written is still a fun and entertaining read, and one that most will enjoy. The title of this is ironic, which some on here just cannot seem to grasp, and the story is about something that is always relevant.

Our narrator here is a woman looking back over her life, and thus we have pieces about her growing up and the actions of her mother. As a child of a single parent so we see the effects this had at the time our narrator was younger, what with the stigma attached and thus all the gossip, in that time period. On top of this there is the mother, who may or may not really be what she implies, which adds an extra layer.

We thus read of a woman, who at age four talked to the garden gnome thinking it was her father, due to what her mother has told her, who at fifteen eventually breaks up with her boyfriend, because once again due to what her mother has told her, and also does not know what to make of the claims that her gym teacher is spying on her and is after her, to get vengeance on her mother.

We find ourselves then in the real world, but with a fantastical element on top of that, as we are taken through our narrator’s life. By the end we see how our narrator acts herself with worries about her teenage daughter going running at night with a boy. A story then that is about trying to protect your children from the dangers we are all too aware of around us, this is done in a light and humorous way that thus makes something which could have been preachy and repetitive into something that is instead very entertaining.

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