Review of Margaret Atwood's The Testaments
Unless you only get your news from a Donald Trump authorised news source, you’d know that The Testaments is Margaret Atwood’s recently released sequel to The Handmaids Tale . I loved The Handmaid’s Tale when I first read it a few decades ago. It had great world building and created a believable brutal vision of a right-wing theocracy in an almost post-apocalyptic US (Gilead). I re-read The Handmaid’s Tale about a year and a half ago for a university course, where we studied the text in-depth, so it was still relatively fresh in my mind as I read The Testaments. I have not watched any of The Handmaid’s Tale television series, so maybe people who have will have made different connections to The Testaments than I did, and have different reactions. The Testaments takes us back to Gilead 16 years after The Handmaid’s Tale . It tells the story from three points of view. From that of a 16 year-old-teenager whose mother escaped with her from Gilead to Canada when she was a ...