Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

Cat's Eye by Margaret AtwoodCat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, and artist, and woman but above all she must seek

beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives

or the friend youve recently been thinking about bumps into you at the mall

but it is as if a different personality has invaded her body

because he blamed the press for his mother’s death

political turmoil

Her prose poem

diet and natural biorhythms--which

"'Written for a local German journal and published in 1811

a wild man's sudden personality change

There are lots of laughs at every level in Treehouse Tales: too SILLY to be told

where he knew the most brilliant artists (and the most depraved whores)

If it hasn’t already