The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood 
 Rating: 
 Chosen randomly from my Book Jar (3/12) 
 (view spoiler)[In the world before, the unnamed narrator used to be married and had a job and a daughter; in the Republic of Gilead, she is a Handmaid called "Offred". Assigned to a Commander and his wife, her survival depends on her capacity to give them a child. Her only regular contact outside the household is another Handmaid, Ofglen, who (like Nick the chauffeur) is part of an underground organisation that might help get her out. Her story, recorded on cassettes, is studied more than a hundred and fifty years later by historians during a Symposium on Gileadean Studies. (hide spoiler)] 
 While the concept of a world where women have no rights was interesting (and terrifying), its execution wasn't always the best. Offred's narration was oftentimes confusing, constantly jumping back and forth between her past and "present" and giving multiple versions of some events. I really liked the transcript of the Symposium at the end, as it provided some much needed information (although still incomplete) on how the Republic of Gilead came to be. 
 "Better never means better for everyone, [...] It always means worse, for some." 
 (Chapter 32)