The Handmaid's Tale Fiction_Gift_Guide Rich World-Building: An epic tale

Rich World-Building: An epic tale for readers who love ethereal magic

and recovered dreams

and in many areas of our lives we had already been asked to accept that nothing is essential and everything changes--and this had taken the fight out of us somewhat

— Paula Hawkins

The Handmaid's Tale Fiction_Gift_Guide Rich World-Building: An epic taleIn the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies? Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are