The Heart Goes Last - Margaret Atwood

Atwood, a natural alchemist, adds some lustre to these bemusing words in The Heart Goes Last. Described by the Herald as "lucid, lyrical and blackly comedic," this book should be anything but last on your reading list: 

• She has a tattoo of a Moebius strip on her arm. 
• They're like the early pioneers, blazing a trail, clearing a way to the future: a future that will be more secure, more prosperous, and just all-round better because of them! Posterity will revere them.
• Too many of the disenfranchised are living in abandoned cars or subway tunnels or even in culverts. 
• At that time there were still some bona fide criminals in the place. Drug dealers, gang enforcers, grifters and con artists, assorted thieves.
• She pictures Jocelyn as a rangy, aristocratic woman with her hair skinned back from her head, like a ballerina or a schoolteacher in old movies.
• How lithe and toned and strong her body must be.
• He'd need leather gloves, only with gauntlets. 
• And whoever may be watching her right now, from inside a light fixture or through a tiny lens the size of a rivet.
• A shock like the one you've had can bring on a fugue state.
• More framed pictures of fruits: a mango, a kumquat. 

Picture It:

• This YouTube video shows Moebius strips at play.
• Image of gauntlets.
  
• Image of rivets.
  
• Image of kumquats.​