- The Blind Assassin is a tale of two sisters, one of whom dies under ambiguous circumstances in the opening pages. The survivor, Iris Chase Griffen, initially seems a little cold-blooded about this death in the family. But as Margaret Atwood"s most ambitious work unfolds--a tricky process, in fact, with several nested narratives and even an entire novel-within-a-novel--we"re reminded of just how complicated the familial game of hide-and-seek can be...