Moral Disorder
By Margaret Atwood

Moral Disorder could be seen either as a collection of ten stories that is almost a novel or as a novel broken up into ten stories. It resembles a photograph album - a series of clearly observed moments that trace the course of a life, and also the lives intertwined with it - those of parents, of siblings, of children, of friends, of enemies, of teachers, and even of animals. And as in an album, times change: the 30s, the 40s, the 50s, the 60s, the 70s and 80s, the present time - all are here. The settings are equally varied: large cities, suburbs, farms, northern forests.

Moral Disorder is about a whole life, the life of Nell, married to Tig, or Gilbert. Margaret Atwood balances the apparently random - disorderly - events and memories against the sense we all have that a life as a whole has its own shape, possibly a destiny.

There were varying opinions about this novel in our reading group. Some found it difficult to read and disjointed. I liked the book and it's interlinked stories. A good piece of literature.