magalim96’s Reviews > The Handmaid’s Tale > Status Update

‚We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn‘t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you‘d be boiled to death before you knew it. There were stories (…) but they were about other women, and the men who did such things were other men. The newspaper stories were like dreams to us (…) We lived in the gaps between the stories.‘