Hi everybody. want 2 kill some time. Go get this book. Its a hilarious comedy. Comedy of errors if u choose to say so. I had to go all the way I felt when I was a little boy going through almost all the things that she goes through in the book. It gave me a new light of wat must have been going through the thoughts of ever fat person. It was great to read and to relive the experience. Its a great one, but it was hard for me to belive that atwood was a slim person, though she wrote such a wonder ful book. The starting pages doesnt reveal any thing about the contents of the book. Only after the first 2 chapters do v come to know of this person. Her childhood experiences, her mothers touching behaviour and ofcourse the course she takes being a communist.