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The Handmaid’s Tale

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What books do you think are important for women to read?
The seminal work of speculative fiction from the Booker Prize-winning, soon to be a Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss, Samira Wiley, and Joseph Fiennes. 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 declinin…

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20 most popular books on TwoChromosomes (2019 Update) rank no. 23

What books do you think are important for women to read?(r/women)

Can’t Buy My Love by Jean Kilbourne. But then, I think everyone should read that book–not just women.

Oh, also: the Handmaid’s Tale. Kinda goes without saying, especially in this political climate.

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$17.64

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Paperback

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ABIS_BOOK

Book Author

Margaret Atwood

Book Edition

1st Anchor Books

Book Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The Handmaid’s Tale

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