Banned Book Club "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

117 S. Pineapple Ave.,Sarasota FL 34236

20 September, 2022

Description

This monthly book club is dedicated to reading and protecting the most important and threatened books for our generation. While we'll meet in-person at our new store location at 117 S. Pineapple Ave, you can choose to join via Zoom instead. The only cost: The price of the book ($16), which includes your copy of The Handmaid's Tale to be picked up anytime before our meeting. In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies? The Handmaid's Tale won the 1985 Governor General's Literary Award for English-language fiction and was shortlisted for the 1986 Booker Prize, yet is among the most challenged publications in American history. About The Handmaid's Tale: After a staged terrorist attack kills the President and most of Congress, the government is deposed and taken over by the oppressive and all controlling Republic of Gilead. Offred, now a Handmaid serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife, can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Despite the danger, Offred learns to navigate the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules in hopes of ending this oppression. This dystopian novel explores themes of women in subjugation and the various means by which they gain agency. It has been adapted into a television series, which began airing on Hulu in 2017 and has never gone out of print since its first publication in 1985. Read about Margaret Atwood's writing of this instant classic here: https://lithub.com/margaret-atwood-on-how-she-came-to-write-the-handmaids-tale/. About Book Bans: Book bans in public schools have recurred throughout American history, and remain an issue of concern to us at Bookstore1Sarasota. Over the past year, the scope of such censorship has expanded rapidly. In response, PEN America has collated an Index of School Book Bans, offering a snapshot of the trend. The index documents decisions to ban books in school libraries and classrooms in the U.S. from July 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022. Check it out and join us in our efforts to protect free expression and students' first amendment rights. You can view the index here. .......................................................................... All signed up and unable to go? Please let us know! Seating is limited and there may be people on our waitlist who would like to to take your place. Please send an email to [email protected] ASAP and hopefully we'll see you next time. Click here to go to the Bookstore1Sarasota website.