Classic 5/5

 

Offred, having survived the apocalypse with her reproductive organs intact, is forced to be the handmaid to a high-placed bureaucrat and his wife—meaning she must bear a child for them to raise as their own. Not only is this novel conceptually amazing and prophetic, the tension on every page, from fraught mundanity, kept me on the edge of my seat. The coda at the end says it all.