This book is set sometime in the future. Women weren't allowed to own property or have money. They also weren't able to have a job. There were different classes of women. The wives always wore blue. The servants always wore green. There were women in the colonies that always wore gray. Then there were the handmaid's who always wore red. There job was to enter into a household to help that household have a baby. Only the fertile women became a housemaid. The couldn't read or do any of the things from their former lives.
I only finished reading the book because I was slightly intrigued by the subject. It was very strange. There was just enough there to keep me going, but since I know how it ends I don't know whether I am happy about it or not.
Sounds interesting. Not sure if I'd go for it or not. Sounds like the "future" stepped back a number of decades.
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