Margaret Atwood Presents A Chilling Dystopic Novel Set In The Republic Of Gilead, Formerly The United States, After A Radical Theocratic Revolution. In A Time Of Declining Birthrates, Fertile Women Are Dispersed To High-ranking White Men As Baby-making Handmaids. If A Handmaid Cannot Reproduce, She Is Exiled To The Colonies, An Uber-polluted Wasteland. One Of These Handmaids, Offred, Not Only Remembers Her Life Before The Revolution, But Is Determined To Reclaim It.