About the author
Margaret Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, essayist, and critic whose work spans literary fiction, speculative fiction, and mythic retelling. She writes about power through bodies, language, memory, ecology, and the practical bargains required to live inside a system.
Atwood gives Offred a voice that is wary, observant, funny, and sometimes contradictory. She revises scenes as she tells them and admits what she cannot know. That uncertainty is not a puzzle to be solved; it is part of what it means to leave testimony under a system built to erase it.
Where to start
Start with The Handmaid's Tale. In Gilead, Offred's body belongs to the state, but her private account remains her own.
