Like its predecessor, Margaret Atwood turns real-life issues into literary prose.
, female genital mutilation and ritualistic rape to name but a few themes—was that anything included in its pages had happened at some point, somewhere, in history.
The testimonies of women who accused powerful men such as Harvey Weinstein and Supreme Court judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault and impropriety was the backbone of the #MeToo movement. Here, it's the testimonies of the three narrators that informs the reader about the horrors of Gilead.
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