CanLit community celebrates success of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ after Emmys
TORONTO — When Margaret Atwood took the stage with the team from “The Handmaid’s Tale” at the end of Sunday’s Emmy Awards, Mike Hamm cheered on the CanLit legend from his Halifax home while the Los Angeles audience gave her a standing ovation.
The manager of Bookmark II bookstore in Halifax is a “huge” fan of the Toronto-based author and has recently seen a spike in sales of Atwood’s 1985 dystopian novel that inspired the series that won eight Emmys, including best drama.
“I think we’ll see a definite sales surge with the Emmy win,” Hamm said Monday in a phone interview.
“I’ve been a lifelong fan. I’ve read everything that she’s written. They were thanking her from the stage and I was thinking, ‘Oh, she’s got to be in the audience,’ and it was very nice to see her get up on the stage with them.”