**** When She Woke #handmaidstale #lgbtq Hardcover - 2011

Algonquin Books, October 2011. Hardcover . 2020&FreeVIB/Good. GOOD CONDITION: Book may have creases on spine. May have discreet tape and/or bent corners on cover or pages. Moderate edge/shelf wear. EX-LIBRARY COPY: Former classroom or public library copy. May contain stickers and/or stamps inside and on fore-edges. May be covered in contact paper or plastic jacket cover. FOUR-STAR BOOKSELLER FAVORITE **** Fast forward to a time when jails have long been overcrowded and the government has found a way to punish “criminals” and enforce a sentence without having to house them. Offenders instead are “chromed” for their crimes and forced back into society, wearing their shame on the skin. Meet Hannah. She has been labeled a murderer because she had an illegal abortion and must now undergo treatments for her skin color for the next seven years. People see her red flesh and cross to the other side of the street for their own safety. Meanwhile the father of her child, a married minister, goes about his life as if nothing had happened. All the shame and consequences of their affair fall on Hannah. This thoughtful dystopian novel shines a light on religious, personal, and societal shame. Although, with the recent repeal of Roe v. Wade, it’s not as unimaginable a story as I wish it were. It is very much “The Scarlet Letter” meets “The Handmaid’s Tale.” “One by one, she conjured all the boxes she'd been put into: The good girl box and the good Christian box...the mistress box...the bad daughter and fallen woman boxes...She saw with a painful blaze of clarity that every one of these boxes had been of her own making, either by consent or lack of resistance. She had no right to bitterness; she had put herself in them. And she would get herself out, she vowed. And once she was out, she'd never willingly climb into another box again.” Page 268. SAVE ON SHIPPING: Additional books ship for $1.00 each Between the Covers!