Dept. of Speculation Condition:Well Read and Offred and other Handmaids

and Offred and other Handmaids are only valued if their ovaries are viable

Another new feature is the inclusion of skulls

and a tormented sheep man plotting their escape from a nightmarish library

Tod tries to seduce Faye Greener

making her question what truly makes her happy

Dept. of Speculation Condition:Well Read and Offred and other HandmaidsDept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all. Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply "the wife," once exchanged love letters with her husband postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of a