The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood, 1986, Houghton Mifflin, Genre: SciFi. 311 pages. Finished 3/9/13.

LesOpinion: The first rule of The Library Quest is that you don't talk about The Lib...wait, no, it's "If I've already read the book at a different time, I can choose whether to re-read it." This is the first previously read book I chose to read again.

The Handmaid's Tale envisions a dystopia in which right wing attitudes toward women's reproductive capacity are taken to their logical extreme. In light of the recent "Republican war on women," the story is particularly harrowing, the horror of the book exacerbated by its sparing, restrained prose.

Circumstances under which I recommend this book: All.