Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
I had to reread this because the sequel is out on Tuesday! I always forget how beautifully written and structured this is, and tend to only remember the grim reality of the world. And of course, really this is a story of the struggle to survive (mentally and otherwise) a horrible situation. This merits rereading for sure, not just to get all the details and things you've forgotten, but because once you know the framing device (or that there even is one), it does feel more optimistic. Anyway, great literature, fingers crossed that the sequel lives up to it.
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