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The Handmaid's Tale is a novel about a society where women have been reduced to nothing more than reproductive machines. Women are no longer allowed to read, and are only valued if they are able to get pregnant. Offred is a Handmaid in this society, and she is forced to do everything she is told by the Commander and his wife. Offred remembers the days before the society changed, when she had a husband, a daughter, and a job. But all of that is gone now, and she is forced to live in a world where she is nothing more than a slave. The Handmaid's Tale is a scathing satire of a society where women are reduced to nothing more than slaves.
In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies?
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are only valued if their ovaries are viable.
Offred can remember the days before, when she lived and made love with her husband Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now....
Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing,
The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force.
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