The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood, Reviewed by Mark D. Walker

I decided to read this book after I saw the author promoting a fundraiser for PEN America to combat book banning. She partnered with Penguin Random House to create an unburnable version of her often-banned novel, The Handmaid’s Tale.  She is depicted with a flame thrower. Margaret Atwood is among the top twenty authors banned, with three titles and fifteen bans in eleven districts. One of the positive results of book banning is that many readers will read them to find out why they’re being suppressed. She’s also an accomplished author with over fifty books translated into 35 languages. This […]

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