![](https://ilove.ebpl.org/sites/default/files/styles/igd_book_page/public/51oCLrHcrqL._SX309_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg?itok=Ii43iuWl)
About This Book
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and failure means exile to the dangerously polluted Colonies. Offred can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Now she navigates the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules.