Surfacing

Surfacing

<b><i>From the #1 New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>The Handmaid's Tale</i></b><br><br>Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, <i>Surfacing</i> 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.  <i>Surfacing</i> 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.