Great book, but I feel I read it at the wrong time. Synopsis: Offred is a sex slave, pretty much. She tells her story as a Handmaid, a live-in mistress of sorts for high-level Commanders whose Wives are unable to bear children. The story takes place in Gilead, a dystopian United States which has been turned upside down through internal plots (including the murder of the entire congress) and is now governed by an ultra-conservative, highly militarized oppressive government. A theocracy. In a context of […]
Pagliacci Weeping the Tears of the Chosen One
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Woe to Middle America
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The Maryest Sue Ever to Mary a Sue
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