The Year of the Flood
The same catastrophe as Oryx and Crake, told from below by the people those corporate compounds had already thrown away.
Running alongside Oryx and Crake rather than after it, this follows two women who survive the same engineered pandemic from outside the corporate compounds. God’s Gardeners, a sect fusing ecology with scripture, gives the book its hymns and its moral spine. Atwood is more interested here in what ordinary people believed while the world was ending.
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