{"id":1108,"date":"2016-01-29T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fableandi.com\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2020-04-04T21:38:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T16:08:10","slug":"book-review-the-heart-goes-last-by-margaret-atwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/book-review-the-heart-goes-last-by-margaret-atwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood"},"content":{"rendered":"
A couple sign up for a social experiment project whereby they can live in luxury for a month, the only condition being that the next month they have to stay in a prison while another couple called their Alternates take their place and live in their house. Each month the two couples repeat the house-prison-house schedule. But what is the prject actually about? And what happens to the marriage when they develop feelings towards their Alternates?<\/p>\n
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Get ready, all of you with evil twisted minds out there – here\u2019s the perfect book for you! The Heart Goes Last<\/em> is a dark (very) tale of our world in the distant future, marred by an economic crisis. The couple in the story, Stan and Charmaine are forced to live in a car on losing their jobs and all other possessions. So when a social project named Positron, headed by Jocelyn and Ed, invites volunteers, they sign up hoping for a better life in the experimental city of the project. Only condition – They have to live in a beautiful 1950s styled house with lovely chinaware and trimmed hedges for one month and the next month they have to move to a prison cell, live like convicts and help run the city. Stan looks after the chickens in coop and Charmaine knits teddy bears for charity (Remember the teddy bears. It is a dark dark tale) while in prison. While they serve their time in prison, another couple, their Alternates, would live in their house. The Positron project is a closed world, no contact with anyone outside its walls and everything the residents need (or even more – the food is super delicious) is available inside the walled city.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n