
From the bestselling author of I’m Afraid of Men comes The Handmaid’s Tale for the post-#MeToo a propulsive and chilling novel set in a post-epidemic isolationist state where a young woman watches her sister’s death ignite a movement that will either free women or destroy them all. When Sarah Munroe is sexually assaulted on her university campus and her attacker walks free, she makes a devastating she publicly takes her own life in a final act of defiancé against a regime that has stripped women of their rights. Her final message ignites a radical movement called #FreeToo. Soon, masses of women are taking up “Sarah’s Call” and “freeing” themselves as extreme acts of protest. As these deaths multiply across the state, Sarah’s sister, Kennedy, struggles with grief, guilt, and anger, as she resists the movement’s exploitation of her sister’s memory. When the government declares the movement a contagion and reclassifies all women as “hystericals,” Kennedy is forced into a new reality where her very existence is criminalized. As the regime tightens its grip, she must reckon with her sister’s legacy—and decide whether to surrender or survive.