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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon from the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction ( The New York Times ) - The sixth and final season of the award-winning Hulu series starring Elisabeth Moss is now streaming Look for The Testaments the bestselling award-winning sequel to The Handmaid s Tale In Margaret Atwood s dystopian future environmental disasters and declining birthrates have LED to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women. Offred is one of these a Handmaid bound to produce children for one of Gilead s commanders. Deprived of her husband her child her freedom and even her own name Offred clings to her memories and her will to survive. At once a scathing satire an ominous warning and a tour de force of narrative suspense The Handmaid s Tale is a modern classic. Includes an introduction b