JUNE BOOK
Our selection for June is The Handmaid's Tale (link) by celebrated Canadian author Margaret Atwood. (Your assignment this month is an essay comparing and contrasting the book with the TV series; grading will be on the Bell curve.) Please take note: we're trying a new location, Zawa Restaurant and Bar on Commercial Drive just off Venables (link). We'll start at our usual 7pm. Come and join the fun next month (Tuesday, June 6). Everyone welcome.
In Margaret Atwood's dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women. Offred is one of these, a Handmaid bound to produce children for one of Gilead's commanders. Deprived of her husband, her child, her freedom, and even her own name, Offred clings to her memories and her will to survive. At once a scathing satire, an ominous warning, and a tour de force of narrative suspense, The Handmaid's Tale is a modern classic.
