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Atwood's delicate prose and complicated characters take what could have been a common cloak-and-dagger affair story and change it to a remarkable piece of historical fiction. The Blind Assassin jumps backward from a contemporary, gently-decaying Northern town and follows the complicated history of the town's most prominent family, the Chases. From the Great Depression to Bolshevism, science fiction, and a tangled web of familial alliances, Atwood's story follows the great sacrifices and treachery the Chases inflict on one another during more than sixty years of history.