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Title: Enlightened Reading!
Review: In this novel the Handmaids are potentially fertile women assigned to Commanders, who are high level members of a right wing regime whose wives are infertile, you can guess the rest. This is in an era after the U.S. Congress and the President were murdered, and these right-wing bible followers form a society (called the Republic of Gilead) where women have no rights and are valued primarily for their reproductive ability, the Handmaids are'nt even allowed to read. Purges of political enemies are frequent. The primary character is portrayed through a diary she has written, it gives a moving personal account of her life as a Handmaid, very introspective. Overall, this novel seems to be a satiric expose' of where extreme right-wing religious and political thinking can lead us, and these elements do exist today in the United States of America, some actually even in power. A very interesting and well written novel, it kept my interest and should be appealing to most people.
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