Thirty-four years after the publication of The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood returns to the Republic of Gilead in The Testaments. Through the narratives of three different women, Atwood explores what life would be like for young people coming of age under a theocratic dictatorship as well as the events that lead to Gilead’s downfall. The women – the daughter of an important Commander, a Canadian anti-Gilead activist, and one of Gilead’s founding enforcers – are brought together by long-buried secrets which force each of them to decide how far they will go for what they believe.

Pick up a copy of The Testaments at the library!