Margaret Atwood - Rendbomlás

The short stories of Rendbomlás tell the story of the Canadian Nell from the fifties to the present as snapshots carefully arranged in an album. As a teenager, Nell has to cope with the difficulties of her mother's threatened pregnancy, and then with the mental problems of her much younger sister. After his youthful search for self and path, he finds a partner, and while discovering a radically new way of life, he faces radically new problems, and finally he has to rethink his relationship with his aging parents.
Disruption of Order is not a dramatic narration of fate-changing events, but also of many-faceted stories in their mundane nature, from which the picture of a woman who - although the order of her world breaks down from time to time - is constantly searching for a way to a new balance.
With a more lyrical and personal tone than usual from the author, this volume with intimate humor is convincing proof that Atwood is not only a defining novelist of our time, but also a grand master of the short story genre.

"I never got over the second-grade reading book, which featured a father who drove to work every day, a mother who wore an apron and baked, and two children - a boy and a girl - a dog and a cat, and they all lived in a white house with ruffled curtains. Although none of the houses I lived in had such curtains, the whole thing seemed preordained. It was not a goal, not something I should strive for: this curtain will suddenly appear in my life, because it is the will of fate. My future would not be complete—no, it would not be normal—if it did not include such a curtain and all that goes with it."