The Testaments

Margaret Atwood 2019

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
dystopian political betrayal literary fiction

Our Take

Three women narrate the collapse of Gilead from within — including Aunt Lydia, whose accommodation with the regime is the most morally complex portrayal in the duology. Atwood understands that the most dangerous people inside a system of oppression are sometimes those who know it best. The betrayal runs in all directions.

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