Margaret Atwood has told the CBC that she won’t “billboard” her award-winning novel The Testaments by saying just what message she was trying to convey in the book. It’s up to the reader, she told the interviewer. The Testaments is said to be dystopian in nature. That’s another word for apocalyptic. The interviewer seems to feel that Atwood sees the approach of Gilead, a land where male overlords have subjected women to near illiterate serfdom. Or then again, like many successful authors, she may intend the book merely as fanciful escapism
