Three densely woven narratives unexpectedly intertwine in this Booker Prize winning novel.  Margaret Atwood’s story is told by Iris Chase Griffen, a cold and unaffected narrator, who recounts her wealthy family’s fall from grace.  Atwood also weaves a science fiction novel written and post-humously published by the narrator’s sister, in addition to newspaper articles detailing the family’s history.  The novel within a novel was the most challenging piece of the Blind Assassin for me to follow.  I had trouble caring about the story or how it related to the other pieces of Atwood’s novel.  The first 200 pages of this book are a challenge and perhaps the most thickly layered of the novel, however, I found the ending uneven- without offering over-explanation, it leaves you with revelations about the characters without giving any time to process the information.  If I seem wishy-washy about this story, let me offer this: I really did enjoy this book and given the time, would read it again.