And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light.
When the van door slammed on Offred’s future at the end of The Handmaid’s Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her – freedom, prison or death.
With The Testaments, the wait is over.
Margaret Atwood’s sequel
picks up the story 15 years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with
the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.
Coming September 2019
Our younger daughter, Emily, lives and works in Toronto and recently she saw a crew filming an episode of what is likely Season Three of The Handmaid's Tale. I've written about trying to keep up with all the scripture references and religious allusions in Season Two of the stark series. I resorted to entering them on my phone notes page as we watched, sometimes aware of the quote while frantically doing a search for others.
Margaret Atwood is writing the sequel now, with the working title The Testaments, which certainly continues the chilling theme of the twisted and tortured abuse of scripture. We'll have to wait, but I can only hope that our Canadian icon will include The Handmaid's Christmas Trees, now on display at the dystopian White House. God help us all.
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