The Testaments
Margaret Atwood · 2019
The sequel to *The Handmaid's Tale* arrived in the full political heat of pre-Dobbs America and gave us three narrators tearing Gilead apart from within. Atwood at 79 writing with total authority. The novel will be read alongside the original as a complete artifact of its political moment.
The case against
Aunt Lydia earns her pages; the two young narrators could have wandered in from a YA dystopia, all pluck and convenient escapes. Where the original built dread by withholding, this one explains: how Gilead works, how it falls, who was secretly good. Answers are exactly what The Handmaid's Tale was wise enough to refuse.
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