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 read it twice on my Kindle. The Handmaid's Tale was super interesting and really stoked the imagination about the potential of something so horrific happening in a future society. I became interested in the book because I saw a few episodes of the TV show and it was so shocking, but I never finished the show (not sure if I ever will).
Maybe a spoiler: The epilogue of the first book was super interesting as well but it kind of had the effect of numbing down the rest of the story because it almost diminishes it in a way to a strange past worthy of study, instead of being a horrible and terrifying present.
Maybe a spoiler: The epilogue of the first book was super interesting as well but it kind of had the effect of numbing down the rest of the story because it almost diminishes it in a way to a strange past worthy of study, instead of being a horrible and terrifying present.
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