Stone Mattress

 Margaret Atwood is the author of the 2014 book of short stories called Stone Mattress. This book has nine stories. The first three stories involve a group of authors that float in and out. The rest of the stories are stand alone tales. One story is about a girl in a family who has a genetic abnormality. Her elder sister wants to get married but having an abnormal sister is making that impossible. So the family agrees to have a fake funeral for the younger sister while she ends up having to spend the rest of her life in hiding. Decades later she is found and things do not go well for her. My favorite story of the book is the one called Stone Mattress. Never underestimate the power of revenge by elderly women. The final story is the book is at an assisted living in Canada that is being surrounded by protestors who think the resources should be directed at the young instead of the old. They surround the facility blocking the entrance of supplies and staff. This was a believable horror story of elder abuse and quite scary to read.