Over the years, I’ve heard many references to Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” so I finally read it several months ago. Atwood’s book is set in a dystopian future America where a totalitarian regime enforces rigid social roles and women who are still fertile are forced to become “Handmaids” to produce children for the “Commanders”. These Handmaids are separated from any family they may have had and from their own names. Their names become a combination of the word “of” and the name of the Commander they belong to. If the Handmaids are sent to a different Commander, their names change to reflect the name of the new Commander.