“Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.”—Margaret Atwood One of the most prolific and well-known Canadian novelists of all time, Margaret Atwood is also a poet, essayist, literary critic,...
One day, my dad looked at me, and then looked at my mom, and said: “It’s me or him. Choose.” I thought my mom would take my side, but I was so, so wrong.