The novelist Margaret Atwood has revealed her shock at the revelation that her fellow Canadian author Alice Munro knew that her daughter was sexually abused by her husband—and stayed with him after finding out the dark secret.
“It was a bombshell. I’m shocked. I’m still trying to get my head around it,” Atwood, multi-award-winning author of The Handmaid’s Tale and many other novels, told The Daily Beast.
The literary world, like Atwood, is similarly reeling after Andrea Robin Skinner’s stunning article in the Toronto Star revealing her abuse at the hands of Gerald Fremlin—and Munro’s non-response to it.
