Everything Handmaids
wear is red: the colour of blood, which defines us.
Offred is a Handmaid
in the Republic of Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding
jobs, reading, and forming friendships. She serves in the household
of the Commander and his wife, and under the new social order she has
only one purpose: once a month, she must lie on her back and pray
that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining
births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if they are
fertile. But Offred remembers the years before Gilead, when she was
an independent woman who had a job, a family, and a name of her own.
Now, her memories and her will to survive are acts of rebellion.
Provocative,
startling, prophetic, The Handmaid’s Tale has long been a global
phenomenon. With this stunning graphic novel adaptation of Margaret
Atwood’s modern classic, beautifully realized by artist Renée
Nault, the terrifying reality of Gilead has been brought to vivid
life like never before.