![]() ![]() And Aunt Lydia - yes, that Aunt Lydia - has near-godlike status as one of Gilead's founding Aunts and spends her days quietly collecting dirt on Commanders and fellow Aunts. ![]() Daisy is a Canadian girl repulsed by Gilead, raised by strangely overprotective parents. The Testaments, Margaret Atwood's follow-up to her classic novel The Handmaid's Tale, returns to that dystopic theocracy 15 years later via three protagonists: Agnes, a girl in Gilead who from a young age rejects marriage, though her parents intend to marry her to a powerful Commander. Mostly, they lurk just outside the frame, threatening to swoop in at any moment to wreak havoc.Īnd that absence only emphasizes that the women of Gilead are more fascinating than ever. ![]() Beyond that, they are chilly, dull, uninterested in the women around them - to the point that they also seem kind of dim. We know that Gilead men are at best nonentities, at worst monstrous. We learn that another respected man is a pedophile who gropes young girls. We learn that a high-ranking government official serially kills off each of his teenage wives once they get too old for his tastes, then seeks out new targets. We hear of one who mostly shuts himself in his study, away from his family, to work all day. We learn very little about it in The Testaments. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Testaments Subtitle The Sequel to the Handmaid's Tale Author Margaret Eleanor Atwood ![]()
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