To anyone who has read "The Blind Assassin" by Margaret Atwood?

Question

I have to read this book by Wednesday for school, and it seemed interesting - that's why I chose this particular book (we were given a list of books to choose to read) problem is I haven't read alot of it - 62 pages now - and I'm finding it very dull. There doesn't seem to be any story, and seeing as it needs to be read completely by wednesday I was wondering if it's necessary to read about all the button factory etc? Would I be able to skip this part to get to the main part of the story? It's a little slow for me.. if I'm able to skip ahead, to where should I skip to?
Thanks

Answer 1

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You shouldn't skip ahead, because your missing something, possibly something important.

Answer 2

In 2000 Atwood won the prestigious Booker Prize for her novel The Blind Assassin (2000). The annual award is given to the best full-length novel written in the British Commonwealth. The novel tells the story of a woman who looks back on her life and the events surrounding her sister’s early death. Atwood looked toward the future in her next novel, Oryx and Crake (2003), and saw a bleak wasteland. The Penelopiad (2005) was a retelling of Homer’s Odyssey from the point of view of Odysseus’s wife, Penelope. Her collection of related short stories Moral Disorder (2006) follows a Canadian family over the course of 60 years.