The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood
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The Handmaid's Tale

Alexa
9/19/2015
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This poetically exquisite masterpiece of speculative fiction is unfortunately just as apt thirty years after its writing. It is painful that the reality of gender and reproductive politics are even more dangerous now than they were then. And yet it is also a masterpiece of character and plot, a horribly engrossing page-turner. I weep at how rapidly backwards we seem to be moving.