The Year of the Flood

by Margaret Atwood

Atwood returns to the post-apocalyptic world of Oryx and Crake in this 2009 speculative novel in which a religious sect rises from the ashes of an ecological crisis. “Atwood spins the most arresting alternate mythologies to our hell-bent world,” declared The Los Angeles Times: “The Year of the Flood is a slap-happy romp through the end times. Stuffed with cornball hymns, genetic mutations worth of Thomas Pynchon and a pharmaceutical company run amok, it reads like dystopia verging on satire. She may be imagining a world in flames, but she’s doing it with a dark cackle.”