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Offred, a handmaid, describes life in what was once the United States, now the Republic of Gilead, a repressive and intolerant monotheocracy, in a satirical novel set in the near future.
Narrated by Alex, the leader of a violent youth gang, in a form of slang invented by the author, this famous satire is set in an alarming future of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism.
This stark novel is set in an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's...