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In November of 1843, 16 year-old Grace Marks* was convicted of assisting in the murder of her employer and his housekeeper in the small town of Richmond Hills, in what would one day become Ontario. The case made a splash in the papers at the time and Grace continued to generate interest well into the early 1900s. Because, even after all these years, we don't know if Grace was guilty, innocent, victim, or something else entirely. Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace is a second attempt at telling the celebrated (alleged) murderess's story. (The first was a TV film called The Servant Girl, made in 1974). And even after reading nearly 500 pages of Grace's tale—supplemented by excerpted letters, folk songs, memoirs, and newspaper stories—it's still hard to say what Grace's verdict should have been...

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