Alumni Association of Boston presents "Boston Reads: "Alias Grace" by Margaret Atwood"
Please join us for McGill Reads Boston, the McGill Alumni
Association's Boston-area book club. We are an informal group that
meets every seven weeks in the home of one of our members to read
and compare notes about books set in Montreal.
In "Alias Grace", bestselling author Margaret Atwood takes us back
in time and into the life of one of the most enigmatic and
notorious women of the nineteenth century. Grace Marks has been
convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her
employer, Thomas Kinnear, and Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and
mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or
insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory
of the murders. Dr. Simon Jordan, an up-and-coming expert in the
burgeoning field of mental illness, is engaged by a group of
reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens
to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she
cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her
memories? Is Grace a female fiend, a bloodthirsty femme fatale? Or
is she the victim of circumstances?