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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood, 1985
Governor General's Award, 1985.Clarke Award, 1987.
A woman in a near-future theocracy is kept for one purpose, and remembers her life before.
Talk about it
- What details of Offred's old life made her present feel most real to you?
- How does the regime keep people in line besides force?
- Which small acts of resistance in the book mattered most to you?
Questions we wrote from what the book covers. They don’t give away the plot. How we pick. For more, try our questions for any book.