Margaret Atwood has frequently been cited as one of the foremost writers of our time. "Moral Disorder", her new work of fiction, could be seen as a collection of ten stories that is almost a novel or a novel broken up into ten stories. It resembles a photograph album - a series of clearly observed moments that trace the course of a life, and the lives intertwined with it - those of parents, siblings, children, friends, enemies, teachers and even animals. And as in a photograph album, times change; every decade is here, from the 1930s through the 50s, 60s and 70s to the present day. The settings are equally varied: large cities, suburbs, farms, northern forests.