<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the bestselling, award-winning author of <i>The Handmaid's Tale</i> and <i>The Testaments</i>, a dazzling collection of short stories that look deeply into the heart of family relationships, marriage, loss and memory, and what it means to spend a life together <p/>"If you consider yourself an Atwood fan and have only read her novels: Get your act together. You've been missing out." --<i>The New York Times Book Review, </i>Rebecca Makkai, best-selling author of <i>The Great Believers</i></b> <p/>Margaret Atwood has established herself as one of the most visionary and canonical authors in the world. This collection of fifteen extraordinary stories--some of which have appeared in <i>The New Yorker </i>and <i>The New York Times Magazine</i>--explore the full warp and weft of experience, speaking to our unique times with Atwood's characteristic insight, wit and intellect. <p/>The two intrepid sisters of the title story grapple with loss and memory on a perfect summer evening; "Impatient Griselda" explores alienation and miscommunication with a fresh twist on a folkloric classic; and "My Evil Mother" touches on the fantastical, examining a mother-daughter relationship in which the mother purports to be a witch. At the heart of the collection are seven extraordinary stories that follow a married couple across the decades, the moments big and small that make up a long life of uncommon love--and what comes after. <p/>Returning to short fiction for the fi