- Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.
- A religion-based autocracy has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. In this country women are second-class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed Offred. This is her story.—grantss
- The Handmaid's Tale is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was the United States. Gilead is ruled by a fundamentalist regime that treats women as property of the state, and is faced with environmental disasters and a plummeting birth rate. In a desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated world, the few remaining fertile women are forced into sexual servitude. One of these women, Offred, is determined to survive the terrifying world she lives in, and find the daughter that was taken from her.—Jwelch5742
- Posterior to a worldwide fertility crisis, an extremist theocratic religious organization takes control of the United States government, suspending the constitution and forcing women into state sanctioned rape. Separated from her daughter and her husband, Protagonist June Osborne must learn to survive in this oppressive regime.—sleemoly
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