This has a promising premise: with jobs being so scarce and the economy having utterly tanked, what if there were a make-work project? What if that project was a sealed prison town, in which half the people were inmates and the other half townspeople, and they switch off every other month? 
 But then it takes some weird turns and the ideas of gated communities and prison life--things that could be amazing in Atwood's hands, ideas that she could spin past logical conclusions, the way she did with The Handmaid's Tale--they all... fall apart. This is not the dystopian nightmare I'm looking for. I expect more from Margaret Atwood. 
 3 stars. I want to give it 2 stars for an Atwood book--she's capable of so much more than this--but by any other author I'd view it more generously. A good enough read to pass the time on the train, but not one I'm likely to push on other people.