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The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

  • FINISHED
  • Finished January 2021
  • First published 1985

fiction dystopia science fiction

In the theocratic state of Gilead, fertile women are assigned to powerful households to bear children.   Offred describes her daily life as a handmaid and the memories of the world before.