WHO GETS TO SAVE THE WORLD?

ROLE models; PSYCHOLOGICAL fiction; LITERATURE

And late last year, Margaret Atwood delivered a sequel to her best-known novel, The Handmaid's Tale. The others are new characters, teenagers speaking from somewhere beyond Gilead's reach: Agnes, the daughter of a Sons of Jacob commander, and Daisy, who lives in Atwood's native Canada. She appears again, in far more extreme circumstances, to narrate the Gilead novels: Offred, Lydia, Agnes, and Daisy are four variations on the theme. It's the perfect setup for an examination of female misogyny (and an earlier Atwood novel might have gone there), but The Testaments is more interested in celebrating Lydia's ingenious long con. [Extracted from the article]

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