Reply To: The Handmaid's Tale

Can someone remind me whether Gilead is just New England, or whether that’s the broader US?

IIRC there is a USA because when Offred get glimpses of the news or hears Serena Joy discussing the matter with other Wives, they talk about the war and the victories Gilead has had lately. I think, though, that the last bits of the US are incredible small and fractured themselves. Florida and Alaska, which are on opposites sides of America, stick out in memory as being two places that have not been taken over.

However, Gilead is the major exerting influence of the region . I seem to remember at some point in the novel Offred sees both Middle Eastern delegates and Asian tourists