The Testaments, the long-awaited but never-expected sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, is an intentionally problematic text. Atwood is expanding the world of Gilead with three very different perspectives from the powerless Offred in the original novel. The three characters tell their own stories of what it’s like to be a child in Gilead, a teenager outside of Gilead, and an Aunt after Offred’s story is long over. They are contemporaries of each other, but strangers for most of the book.