Its narrative is interspersed with chapters from a book about a woman and her lower-class lover, who tells her a story about the Lizard Men of Xenor.
An aspiring politician in this novel forces a young girl to go to BellaVista, a clinic where she has a secret abortion. Late in this novel, we learn that its narrator is writing it to her estranged granddaughter Sabrina to correct the lies told by Sabrina's malicious guardian Winifred. Its narrative is interspersed with chapters from a book about a woman and her lower-class lover, who tells her a story about the Lizard Men of Xenor. That lover is a fictionalized version of Alex Thomas, a socialist who is hidden away by the narrator after being falsely accused of burning down her father's button factory in Port (*) Ticonderoga. This novel's title refers to a novel about about the city of Sakiel-Norn, where the title character falls in love with a tongueless girl he is supposed to murder. Its beginning describes how the narrator's sister killed herself by driving over a bridge in Toronto. For 10 points, name this novel about the sisters Iris and Laura Chase, written by Margaret Atwood.
An aspiring politician in this novel forces a young girl to go to BellaVista, a clinic where she has a secret abortion.
The Blind Assassin