The Blind Assassin

little different a little different speed

and we've got best-selling books there's no change of course with the fiction book The Last Precinct by Patricia Cornwell is still going strong I believe that's a Kay Scarpetta novel actually I can look on the bookshelf It might be right by me.

I think it is.

There's a TV show now with Nicole Kidman as Case Arpetta.

Many other notable things happened on November 7th.

Hillary Clinton was elected to the US Senate, thus becoming the first US First Lady to win public office while still the active First Lady.

Margaret Atwood won the book prize for her novel, The Blind Assassin.

And Tim...

That was a 1996 book that she wrote.

And then also The Blind Assassin from 2000.

Yeah, I agree.

I think Atwood is not someone that you immediately associate with mystery.

I'm Jimmy.

We're the Drunk Guys, and this week we are reading our Patreon selected book of the month, The Blind Assassin by Margaret, uh, what?

Atwood.

A- Atwood.

To her, their grandparents

... which is Laura's older sister.

Grandparents, and then also interspersed into different part- different in between chapters are chapters of another book, the book called The Blind Assassin by Laura Chase, which was, at least everyone thinks, published posthumously after Laura killed herself, and it was her sister, Iris, that, like, sent it to the, you know, the editors, and they eventually published it, and then it became kind of a hit.

And so, and that actually has two plot lines in itself, and so-