Short Story Review: Impatient Griselda by Margaret Atwood
on Sheila Ash (India), 08/Sep/2020 07:31, 34 days ago
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Impatient GriseldabyMargaret AtwoodMy rating:4 of 5 starsOnly from the pen of Atwood!! She is such a wicked lady :) disturbing the folkloric Griselda tale used in the original Decameron and playing to the current global pandemic's feelings of alienation. The narrator's octupus-like alien on a intergalactical-crises aid mission struggles to communicate with the native bi-ped population, has overtones of third world aid condescension, faces all the linguistic and cultural issues of understanding the stories of the Other and although they are trying their best can't wait to get home and back to a 'normal' life. Brilliant. AvailableonlineView all my reviewsashramblings
