This official TV tie-in edition of The Handmaid’s Tale includes a new introduction by Margaret Atwood. Set in the totalitarian Republic of Gilead, formerly the United States, the novel follows Offred, a Handmaid forced into sexual servitude to repopulate a devastated world. Assigned to the household of the Commander, Fred Waterford, her name literally means “of Fred.” Any act of defiance is punishable by death. Yet even in this brutal regime, hope, memory, and desire persist. Through flashbacks to her former life and her struggle in the present, Offred navigates a world of persecution, fear, and fragile resistance. Haunting and powerfully imagined, Atwood’s novel remains one of the most influential and relevant works of dystopian fiction.