The Handmaid's Tale (Movie Tie-in)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES. BESTSELLER. An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times. ) The sixth and final season of the award-winning Hulu series starring Elisabeth Moss is streaming soon Includes an introduction by Margaret Atwood. In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women. Offred is one of these, a Handmaid bound to produce children for one of Gilead’s commanders. Deprived of her husband, her child, her freedom, and even her own name, Offred clings to her memories and her will to survive. At once a scathing satire, an ominous warning, and a tour de force of narrative suspense, The Handmaid’s Tale. is a modern classic. Look for The Testaments. , the sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale.