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Event Details
This event is hosted by the Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Phoenix.
We'll be reading The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, the sequel to The Handmaid's Tale released 34 years later.
If you support local, this site helps you find a local bookstore near your home where you can purchase the book:
https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780525562627
Partial review from NPR:
"In The Testaments, Atwood explicitly wears the mantle that The Handmaid's Tale conferred upon her: that is, literary social critic and seer extraordinaire. A curious difference between the two novels, however, is that, rather than taking readers on another descent into nightmare, Atwood here foresees the possibility of hope: hope that the forces of resistance and sisterhood will eventually triumph over misogyny, power-mongering and the despoiling of the planet. It may take a century or two, Atwood cautions, to reach the light at the end of the Gilead tunnel, but reach it we will."
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