Revisiting The Handmaid’s Tale in These Uncertain Times
4 min readMay 19, 2019
Even in 1989 I could imagine how Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel could become our reality. I just didn’t expect the prospect of that reality to occur in my lifetime.
I first read The Handmaid’s Tale as a college student in 1989, four years after it was published.
It scared the shit out of me.