Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Margaret Atwood is writing a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood will release a sequel to her wildly popular dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale in September 2019. Called The Testaments, the book is set 15 years after the conclusion of the original story.

The Handmaid’s Tale takes place in a fictional version of New England where the US government has been overthrown and rewritten into a totalitarian state known as Gilead. Women have been deprived of their basic rights and reproductive freedoms, with most serving as “handmaids” to powerful men and their wives. The story is told from the point of “Offred” — a name given to one handmaid to denote her status as “Of Fred,” her assigned officer. Last year, Atwood wrote some additional material for the audio edition of the novel, expanding...

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