Thanks robomatic.

While I have NO love at all for the TV series version of Margaret Atwood's book, The Handmaid's Tale, I love the book. I bought it in 1985 when it was first published and promptly stacked the library shelves with all of her books because I had some control over the books I could order as Branch Librarian.

The Handmaid's Tale is dark, but there is light at the end of the tunnel, based on strong action and the strong ethics of a number of people in the face of the extreme difficulty, which has been imposed on them by people in power - essentially, powerful white males with screwed up ethics, which is a funny-not-funny parallel to recent times.

Almost every Atwood book I have read has been a good read, in my opinion.