A novel-within-a-novel by this author features the sci-fi writer Alex Thomas, who had an affair with the narrator Iris Chase. This author described Nicole (10[1])working (10[2])at The Clothes Hound and being recruited by the Pearl (10[1])Girls in a covert mission to support the Mayday (10[1])group. (10[4])In another (10[1])novel (10[1])by this (10[1])author, (10[1])one character finds a mock-Latin phrase that translates (10[1])as (10[1])“Don’t let the bastards (10[2]-5[3])grind (10[3])you down” (10[4])while (10[2]-5[1])serving (10[2])in the house of Serena Joy. (10[3])That (-5[1])novel (10[1])by this (10[1])author (0[1])of (10[1])The Testaments (-5[1])is set in the (10[1])dystopian (10[4])Republic (10[3])of Gilead (10[3])where Offred (10[4])is forced (10[2])to produce children (10[3])as one of the title characters. (10[1])For 10 points, name this Canadian author of (-5[1])The Handmaid’s (-5[1])Tale. ■END■ (10[2]0[1])