The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood'It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge'Offred is a Handmaid. She has only one function: to breed. If she refuses to play her part she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. She may walk daily to the market and utter demure words to other Handmaids, but her role is fixed, her freedom a

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But her desire for revenge may cost her country its chance at freedom and Nina the chance to heal her grieving heart

The author introduces a host of interesting characters

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