Surfacing is a novel by Margaret Atwood.
The book is about a woman who travels to her childhood home in norther Quebec with her lover, Tom, and young couple, Anna and David. Her intention is to find out what happened to her disappeared father. While there, she hangs out with her friends, goes fishing, meets several different people, including Americans (or "Yanks" as her friend calls them). She also goes rooting through the house's old stuff for any clue as to what might have happened to him.
The book was published in 1972.
Surfacing contains examples of:
- Character Narrator: The story is narrated from the P.O.V. of The Protagonist.
- Disappeared Dad: The Protagonist's goal in the book is to find her father, and if he's still alive.
- Enter Stage Window: The protagonist starts entering the cabin this way after running away from her friends.
- Flipping the Bird: Anna does this in response to being made to do a nude scene for the group's film reel.
- No Dead Body Poops: After catching and killing their first fish in the book, the protagonist looks at it some time later after it's been hung from a tree to dry. She notes there seems to be some poop dribbling from its anus.
- One-Word Title: Surfacing, of course.
