The Handmaid's Tale
With terrifying understatement, this novel narrates the life of a college-educated mother ripped from her career and family to be a slave, in a dystopian United States too plausible to be forgotten. Forbidden by a fanatical government to read, choose their own clothes or appear in public alone, handmaids fulfill an awful purpose as the servants of wealthy families. All the while, however, strange new friendships emerge between the powerless and the powerful, as revolution glimmers on the horizon.
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I thought this was fantastic. I can't recall the last time I read a book with such well-paced, slowly building tension. There was a truly gripping aura of paranoia to this book; having to put it down periodically to get on with college work was a challenge. The drip-feed world building was masterful, the prose was poetic without ever getting overwrought, and again, the atmosphere was just so wonderfully eerie. I have nothing bad to say about it. My first Atwood but definitely not my last!
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