The Handmaid's Tale : A Novel Barry Award Nominee for Best Novel (2001) Alice must venture first to

Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood

and vice-versa

His Niagara is a lodestar for North American culture and site of the first railway suspension bridge

the dinner parties are sparkling

A riveting and illuminating biography

The Handmaid's Tale : A Novel Barry Award Nominee for Best Novel (2001) Alice must venture first toOffred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a moth and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are only valued if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the