The Handmaid's Tale

Scintillating, if not terrifying, read. As a woman, especially in a post-Trump victory America, the book is absolutely chilling and clearly just as resonant today as it was 20 years ago. Atwood explores (beautifully, I should note) a totalitarian, patriarchal New England in which women are relegated into singular spheres of domesticity. By splicing womankind into the different ways by which women have typically gained agency (the role of wife, the role of birthing, of home care, etc), and stripping them of any other means of gaining power, women are wholly reduced to meaningless lives devoid of love and purpose. I would recommend this book to any woman of any age as a means of contemplating women's historical, and future, place in our society, especially moving into a Trump America.