Join beloved, award–winning author Margaret Atwood for an event celebrating the paperback release of her Booker Prize–winning follow-up to The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments. She will be joined in conversation by Carmen Maria Machado, author of the widely acclaimed Her Body and Other Parties and In the Dream House: A Memoir. In 2018, the New York Times listed Her Body and Other Parties as a member of "The New Vanguard," one of "15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century."
Get tickets and learn more. Each ticket provides one attendance link and includes one SIGNED paperback copy of The Testaments.
“A fast, immersive narrative that’s as propulsive as it is melodramatic.”
—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
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Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. In addition to The Handmaid’s Tale, now an award-winning TV series, her novels include Cat’s Eye, short-listed for the Booker Prize; Alias Grace, winner of the the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize; Oryx and Crake, short-listed for the Booker Prize; The Year of the Flood; MaddAddam; and Hag-Seed.
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Thursday, September 3
5:00pm ET
Join this virtual event by purchasing a ticket through Eventbrite. Each ticket provides one attendance link (emailed to you prior to the event) and includes one SIGNED paperback copy of The Testaments, specially bound by the publisher. Books will be shipped to ticket holders after the event.
Registrations are limited for this very special event!
Learn more here.
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More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results.
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"There may be no novelist better suited to tapping the current era’s anxieties than Margaret Atwood.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“The women of Gilead are more fascinating than ever.”
—NPR
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