Books The handmaid's tale

It is a futuristic dystopian novel set in the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian theonomic state that has overthrown the United States government. Due to environmental disasters and declining birthrates, the regime enforces rigid social roles, enslaving the few remaining fertile women, known as Handmaids, whose sole function is to produce children for the ruling class. The story follows Offred, a Handmaid deprived of her freedom and name, as she navigates this oppressive society and clings to her will to survive.