Daughters of the North by Sarah Hall

I read this novel a few days ago. It's a dystopian near-future story about a woman who escapes a society gone bad to live with an outlaw group of women who live "off the map" and who farm so well they're self-sustaining, even flourishing. Meanwhile everyone within the system is eating food out of cans and having their lives, work, and bodies carefully controlled and monitored. This is an awesome novel. It reminded me a little of The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood. I'm going to read Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy. The woman who did my tattoo recommended it to me years ago and I never read it, but always meant to!