NEW YORK (AP) — Thanks to public demand, and a certain American president, Margaret Atwood is writing a sequel to her million-selling “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
“The Testaments” will be published next September by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, the publisher announced Wednesday. The book is set 15 years after the final scene of Offred, narrator of “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Atwood’s novel about a dystopian society in the imagined land of Gilead was a best seller when first published in 1985 and was back on the charts after Donald Trump’s election in 2016. The novel is also the basis for an acclaimed miniseries on Hulu.
Atwood, a Canadian author, said in a statement that the sequel was inspired by readers’ questions about Gilead and by the “world we’ve been living in.”
The sequel can be found in the non-fiction section of your local independent bookstore.
You’re going to have to define fiction and non-fiction for some. And then there’ll be the one asking for the fictional version of the true story. And don’t get me started on all the whiny ass punks that need help finding the self-help section.
Couldn’t watch after season one. Too violent and hopeless. Small victories notwithstanding.
I haven’t watch the Hulu production because I read the book. I read the book back in the early 90s because there was a movie on Showtime or HBO which stared Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Elizabeth McGovern, Aidan Quinn, and Robert Duvall. It was written poorly, the stars were trying, and the premise interested me enough to seek out the book and read it.