The Testaments

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Of the sequel to her classic dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale, author Margaret Atwood says, “The Testaments was written partly in the minds of the readers of its predecessor, who kept asking  what happened after the end of that novel. Thirty-five years is a long time to think about possible answers, and the answers have changed as society itself has changed, and as possibilities have become actualities. The citizens of many countries, including the United States, are under more stresses now than they were three decades ago.” (paperback, 2019)

“To read the book is to feel the world turning, as the unforeseeable shifts of the last few years reveal the same old themes. It is also a chance to see your own political life flash in front of your eyes, to remember how the world was thirty years ago and say ‘If she was right in 1985, she is more right now.'” –The Guardian

“Help[s] us see more clearly the kind of complicity required for constructing a world like [Gilead], and the world we fear our own might become.” –The New Yorker

“As readers confront the horrors of Gilead, many of them will unquestionably see parallels to our own contemporary society.” –The Christian Science Monitor

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