I hadn't read this book since probably around the time it came out. I remember thinking it was good, but not great, which is still my feeling. There is some solid literary craftsmanship, but I don't know how to feel about the mixed sympathies. I get that the wives in Gilead are oppressed, but it seems strange for a handmaid to see beyond the complicity of her monthly rape. I think it's a good metaphor for a kind of All (Cis) Women Matter "feminism" TERFiness.