This book was heartwrenchingly devastating. I think there are so many parallels to our current political climate. The imagery she creates is beautiful and I sticky noted so many pages with new vocabulary. I did miss some of the allusion and references throughout so I recommended doing a Google search for the allusion. You can reference it by chapter to ensure you get everything out of it. Margaret Atwood is such an intelligent woman and I wanted to capture as much as I could out of it.