Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” is the best-selling book on Amazon

Margaret Atwood's, The Handmaid's Tale, published in 1985, is a dystopian novel that imagines the United States ruled by a conservative Christian theocracy. It's currently the best-selling book on Amazon, knocking George Orwell's 1984 to the third spot.

From Washington Post:

Many have argued, though, that Atwood's novel is one of the more important in our new political climate. As Alex Hern wrote in The Guardian:

Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel is set in a near-future New England following the collapse of America into the authoritarian, theocratic state of Gilead. It was groundbreaking for its treatment of gender, depicting a state in which the advances of feminism have been comprehensively destroyed. Women are considered inferior to men, and their every behaviour is tightly controlled by the state. In particular, their role in reproduction is bound to a strict caste system: abortion is illegal, and fertile women are required to bear children for higher-status women.

Many find this to be a fitting cautionary tale in a new administration that many claim doesn't respect women's rights, so much so that more than 1 million people gathered in Washington the day after Trump's inauguration to show support for a variety of women's issues.

Im starting to think a handmaids tale predicted life soon for America under a trump presidency

- em (@limecordiaIe) January 25, 2017