Inspired by the installation Suggested Summer Reading by Charles Jackson Adkins Jr. we will be discussing The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. The conversation will be led by professor of literature at Broward College, Elisa Albo. The Handmaid’s Tale is inspired by evangelical Puritanism of the 17th century. In the wake of a fertility crisis, designated “handmaids” are required to engage in reproductive practices with high-ranking men of the new regime in order to repopulate what was formerly the United States.

Suggested Summer Reading focuses on the appreciation of and advocation for books that have been officially banned in various schools, school districts, and library systems around the United States.

Elisa Albo is an award-winning professor of composition, literature, and English as a foreign language at Broward College.