The Grunin Center for the Arts at Ocean County College has scored a major coup. At 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 23, the author Margaret Atwood will take the main stage there.
Atwood is a literary titan. Her landmark novel The Handmaid’s Tale, released in 1985, was adapted into a 15-time Emmy Award-winning television series. Its long-awaited sequel, The Testaments, won the 2019 Booker Prize, and it broke the record for best first-day sales of any other Penguin Random House title that year.
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