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The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

Episode Summary

In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades. When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her--freedom, prison or death. With The Testaments, the wait is over. Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story more than fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.

Episode Notes

Enjoy our presentation of The Testaments written by Margaret Atwood and published by Penguin/Random House. 
In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades. When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her--freedom, prison or death. With The Testaments, the wait is over. Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story more than fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead. 

The Testaments was awarded the 2019 Booker Prize award.
 

Please be advised, The Testaments contains depictions or discussions of violence and death, sexism, sexual assault and child abuse.

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This title is available as an ebook and an audiobook on Libby by Overdrive.  Please visit calvertlibrary.info for more information.

Libby ebook--https://bit.ly/Testaments_LibbyeBook

Libby audiobook--https://bit.ly/Testaments_LibbyAudio

Music:  Beach Bum Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)  Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/