TRIGGER WARNING: This episode covers content around violence, murder, death, suicide, genocide, sexual abuse, rape, psychological and physical trauma, religious extremism, and religious persecution. Please be advised.

Welcome back to another episode of Did You Read The Book? ! Join me and my guests, Sheree Baxter McLaughlin and Daniel Palmer, as we have a real deep discussion around religious extremism, beautiful prose structures, and dive into one of the hardest (and most relevant) topics yet with The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.

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