Surfacing

"One of the most important novels of the 20th century… utterly remarkable." -The New York Times Book Review

From the author of the New York Times bestselling novels The Handmaid's Tale-an Emmy Award-winning Hulu original series-and Alias Grace, a Netflix original series.

Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacing 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. Surfacing 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.