

- Atwood, Margaret
A Handmaid's Tale
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Sine the 1980s, The Handmaid's Tale has been banned or challenged in various places-Texas ,Alabama, Kansas, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Georgia - due to its controversial themes, explicit content, and its critique of political and religious control.
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