The Testaments by Margaret Atwood is a ”riveting sequel” to The Handmaids Tale, set 15 years later, with the theocratic Republic of Gilead fighting to hold onto power. A Door in the Earth by Amy Waldman tells the tale of an Afghan-American who, inspired by a book, travels to a remote village in the land of her birth to join the work of his charitable foundation. What she finds are conditions far darker than what she expected.