I started this book last year, but I wasn't sure I would ever get around to finishing it. It's actually a very quick little read, but it doesn't have an overall theme tying it together, so I had trouble turning the page to the next little essay each time.
The Tent is a collection of "fictional essays," according to the book cover, but I would be more inclined to call them prose poems. Atwood's subject and language both tend to be fantastical, and that comes across in these essays. So many of them are based on her imagination, and reliant on the reader's imagination. And though I said they're quick to read through, they each need at least a few minutes of recollection and reflection to mull over what they're saying. I also said that they don't have a theme, but maybe they do: "what if. . ."