The Handmaid's Tale author tells The Daily Beast of her shock after it was revealed that Munro stayed with her husband despite knowing he abused her daughter when she was 9.
The Handmaid's Tale author tells The Daily Beast of her shock after it was revealed that Munro stayed with her husband despite knowing he abused her daughter when she was 9.knew that her daughter was sexually abused by her husband—and stayed with him after finding out the dark secret.
Atwood told The Daily Beast: “It was a bombshell for me. I’m shocked. I’m still trying to get my head around it. I had heard a rumor about it but very few details, after Gerry was dead and Alice was in an institution. Munro’s longtime publisher Alfred A. Knopf, her longtime Canadian publisher Douglas Gibson, and her former representatives at WME did not respond to immediate requests for comment.
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