![]() Starved, sedated, the girls can't be sure of anything-except the painful episodes in their pasts that link them.ĭrawing strength from the animal instincts they're forced to rely on, the women go from hunted to hunters, along the way becoming unforgettable and boldly original literary heroines that readers will both relate to and root for. Down a hallway echoing loudly with the voices of mysterious men, in a stark compound deep in the Australian outback, other captive women are just coming to. Verla, a young woman who seems vaguely familiar, sits nearby. ![]() ![]() As the Guardian writes, “contemporary feminism may have found its masterpiece of horror.”ĭrugged, dressed in old-fashioned rags, and fiending for a cigarette, Yolanda wakes up in a barren room. “A Handmaid’s Tale for the 21st century” (Prism Magazine), Wood’s dystopian tale about a group of young women held prisoner in the Australian desert is a prescient feminist fable for our times. ![]()
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