Book Excerpt for the Day

    Two-thirty comes during Testifying.  Aunt Helena is here, as well as Aunt Lydia, because Testifying is special.  Aunt Helena is fat, she once headed a Weight Watchers’ franchise in Iowa.  She’s good at Testifying.

    It’s Janine, telling about how she was gang-raped at fourteen and had an abortion.  She told the same story last week.  She seemed almost proud of it, while she was telling.  It may not even be true.  At Testifying, it’s safer to make things up than to say you have nothing to reveal.  But since it’s Janine, it’s probably more or less true.

    (from The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood)

    9*/10.  The complete review is here.

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