The Handmaid's Tale

Blurb from SLJ

Originally published in 1985, Margaret Atwood's dystopian award-winning novel is now available as a graphic novel. 

A tyrannical religious regime has overthrown the U.S. government and reconfigured human roles and identities to severely oppress women, the LGTBQ community, and other marginalized groups. Offred is a handmaid owned by the government for the sole purpose of procreation in a country of widespread infertility. Her existence is a fragile one—a wrong move or a reckless word, and she could be obliterated. Her only escape is her memory, which remains intact and full of scenes from the way her world used to be. She had a career, a husband, and a daughter, and nothing can take those truths from her. 

The illustrations are haunting and delicately ethereal. Delves into themes of fear, determined resistance, and the complicity of the public, each frame melds with the text until neither can exist without the other.