The Testaments: The Sequel To The Handmaid's Tale

"Would you recognize evil if you saw it? What about resistance? In The Testaments (Margaret Atwood’s long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale), readers get a deeper look into the conditions that created Gilead – a fundamentalist Christian dystopia that’s not quite as unimaginable as one might hope. In this society, where everyone’s options are some gradation of awful, a handful of women find ways to undermine the system. But even that resistance is fraught in a book that makes heroism look like the least glamorous choice available. The revolution is not televised, the revolutionaries don’t look like revolutionaries and the impeccably mannered bad guys just want everyone to be more civil."