Tue 3/8 @ 7PM
Author Margaret Atwood’s 1985 book The Handmaid’s Tale has become a classic and a touchstone (and cautionary tale) for the women’s rights movement, with its depiction of a society in which women as reduced to reproductive chattel without human rights — sort of like Texas. What seemed farfetched when the book came out is now becoming uncomfortably close to reality, reviving interest in it, something also driven by a TV version.
Given the attention that one book has gotten, it’s hard to believe that the 82-year-old writer is the author of more than 50 other books, including other novels, poetry, critical essays and her newly released collection of essays called Burning Questions. She’s also written a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, 2019’s The Testaments.
She’ll be the guest of the Hudson Library & Historical Society for a live streamed event, where she’ll be in conversation with Kent State assistant professor of English Elizabeth Wagoner. The program is free but registration is required. Go here.
Burning Questions, as well as The Handmaid’s Tale and Dearly: New Poems, will be available for purchase through Hudson’s Learned Owl Book Shop.