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And did we mention that Margaret Atwood is publishing a sequel toThe Handmaids Tale?
Therell be more to come in his projected trilogy, not to mention the inevitable cable series.
Always artful and illuminating, never facile.
Butler nails the unspoken hierarchies of contemporary office life in this wry and utterly terrifying work.
It seems like kids stuff, but its quite harrowing for anyone concerned about ecological Armageddon.
The resulting graphic memoir is simultaneously charming, vulnerable, and rightfully angry.
The women must decide whether to leave the settlement or stay and fight their attackers.
Toews gives voice to illiterate women clinging to their humanity and morality even when their community fails them.
His memoir confronts the internal cacophony that never ceases when the worst thing in the world happens.
Parents of young children, like me, should plan on reading it through barely parted fingers.
Im a Witch and Im Hunting You.
Its an unforgettable attempt to make sense of a life, tragic and hopeful all at once.
(The illicit masturbation scenes inThe Signature of All Thingswill permanently imprint themselves on your brain.
(It also won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Carnegie Medal for Fiction.
But as an appetizer, try Tolentinos essay, The Year We Played Ourselves.
(It was one of Michiko Kakutanis top-ten books of 2011.)
Thats how vividOlive Kitteridgeremains, more than ten years after it won Strout the Pulitzer Prize.
InThe Testaments, Atwood will return to her vision of an America conquered byUber-Christian tyrants.
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