Speaking from a woman's perspective, this has got to be one of the creepiest books I've ever read but it's very good. Flash forward several hundred yeSpeaking from a woman's perspective, this has got to be one of the creepiest books I've ever read but it's very good. Flash forward several hundred years and you'll find a society where women are divided into three or four classes: Wife of someone important, wife of someone not important, house cleaner/servant and Hand Maid. Hand Maids get to have sex with the husbands of the important wives who cannot have children of their own. Once a month in a eerie celebration. There's more to it than this, but, even if there were not, it has to have intrigued you, right? Don't bother with the movie version, though. ...more
Read the abridged; never the unabridged. Now that I am reading "March", I really want to read this again!Read the abridged; never the unabridged. Now that I am reading "March", I really want to read this again!...more