Atwood’s ‘The Testaments’ returns to Gilead, with hype
Sep 10, 2019 | 6:45 AM
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LONDON — Margaret Atwood is often asked if her new novel “The Testaments,” a follow-up to “The Handmaid’s Tale,” is set in a dystopian world.
She says: “Let us hope so.”
Atwood says several U.S. states have enacted laws limiting women’s reproductive control that she likens to Gilead, the theocratic republic of the books.
The hit “Handmaid’s Tale” TV series helped spur Atwood to revisit Gilead three decades after she created it.
