I understand why this is well loved and renowned but I just couldn't bring myself to care. It was very white feminism, "what if what happened in the past to Black and Indigenous women actually happened to white women." I also think it was weird that the only reference to Black women or Black people in general was to say they got shipped off somewhere. Nothing in this narrative was groundbreaking or even original. I think Atwood's understanding of American Evangelicalism was limited and there was too little background given for the reader to have the appropriate suspension of belief.