![]() ![]() ![]() This was an economic blessing that created cheap wooden and bone buttons. In the late nineteenth century, Grandfather Benjamin Chase who is a manufacturer brought profitability to the town by opening a button factory. The Chase family is very well known in Port Ticonderoga. Despite this complex structure, The Blind Assassin is not difficult to follow at all Atwood’s long novel is a story within a short novel within a family history. Laura’s book, published posthumously, became a cult favorite, and parts of it appear at random within Iris’s story. At first rejected as shocking and obscene, her book follows an affair between a well-bred young woman and a nameless, rather unrefined science-fiction writer who amuses her with a story set on an imaginary planet. She is also the author of a short novel that is also called The Blind Assassin. Laura, even dead, is the most celebrated member of the Chase family. ![]()
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