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reviewed Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)

Margaret Atwood: Handmaid's Tale (Paperback, 1998, Anchor Books) 4 stars

It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the …

Review of "Handmaid's Tale" on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

The religious right in America seizes control of the government by blaming terrorist acts on Islamic fundamentalists, throwing the country into disarray and confusion, and taking advantage of this to repeal laws giving women equal rights and control of their bodies, and instead dropping the nation into some kind of religious fundamentalist patriarchy where white men rule supreme and women's only purpose is to bear more healthy Caucasian children. This book was written in 1986, hard to believe in 2017 it suddenly seems so very relevant...