Title: The Handmaid’s Tale
Author: Margaret Atwood
Published: 1985
Pages: 311
Structure: 46 chapters in 15 sections, plus “Historical Notes on The Handmaid’s Tale”
The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian novel about a woman’s experience in what was once the north-eastern United States after a coup has imposed a Christian fundamentalist theocracy. I found it both frightening and compelling, and could not put it down.