Margaret Atwood 
Handmaid’s Tale 

In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offreds persistent memories of life in the time before and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwoods devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, The Handmaids Tale is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning.