We loved this one. The narrator is Offred (as in, "of Fred," the Commander in whose home she lives). The U.S. is no more, now it's the kingdom of Gilead. In Gilead, women are classified as wives, handmaids, Marthas, or Aunts.
The book was written in 1985 and enjoyed a resurgence with a Hulu series. In 2019, Atwood brought out a sequel -- The Testaments.
On Amazon, there are something like 44,000 reviews of this book. We're not reviewing all of it here, only to say -- we really liked it and we enjoyed discussing.
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