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Tuesday, May 1, 2018

The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood


Book 2 of the MaddAddam series. 

After Oryx and Crake, we expect the series to follow Jimmy/Snowman, but it doesn't. We start with Toby and Ren, two women who used to be a part of the God's Gardeners cult. We watch them survive the Waterless Flood, the plague Crake set upon humanity. We see the events that lead up the Waterless Flood as told by Toby and Ren, including how they know some of the characters we've already met.

In true Atwood fashion, we're jerked from the present to the past and back again. How does the God's Gardeners cult relate to Crake? How do our heroines fit into the part of the story we already know? And how does this cult predict what's coming?

The answers are murky at best, but through the “scripture” and hymns of Adam One and the God's Gardeners we see how they perceive the world around them, a world that is so close to ours. Reading Oryx and Crake, I thought Atwood's future was crazy, but once I see it through someone else's eyes I see it's already happening. It's on it's way. 

So you have two questions to answer: Will you read MaddAddam, the final book in the trilogy? Will you realize that it's coming, that the Waterless Flood will overtake all of us before we can fight it?

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