The Handmaid's Tale / Margaret Atwood / 311 pages / October Challenge Banned Books

This is an excellent audio recording with a plethora of actors/actresses and is in stereo so that conversing voices actually come from different directions.  In this dystopian novel, right-wing religious zealots have overthrown the United States government.  America is now a fundamentalist police state wherein young women are forced to serve an handmaids - basically breeding machines for the barren elite.  Offred writes to tell her tale of love, lost family, vile servitude, harsh repercussions, and rebellion.  Although The Handmaid's Tale won the Governor General Award for Fiction and was runner-up for the Booker Prize, it appears on the ALA 100 Most Banned/Challenged Books llist for its explicit sexual scenes and religious viewpoint.