Margaret Atwood Has Created An ‘Unburnable’ Book

Margaret Atwood is the author of the controversial “The Handmaid’s Tale.”

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The book was first published in 1985 and became a Hulu series in 2017.

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Atwood has witnessed many challenges to remove her book from schools throughout the decades.

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However, she has created the unthinkable: an unburnable edition of her book.

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Her publisher, Penguin Random House, announced an auction for the book on June 7.

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All proceeds from the unburnable book sale will go to PEN America.

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PEN America is an organization dedicated to fighting book censorship.

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They released a video of Atwood, now 82, trying to burn the book with a flamethrower.

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The book will be on display at Sotheby’s New York on June 3.

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