The Year of the Flood

Adam One, The Kindly Leader Of The God's Gardeners - A Religion Devotedto The Melding Of Science And Religion, The Preservation Of Allspecies, The Tending Of The Earth, And The Cultivation Of Bees Andorganic Crops On Flat Rooftops - Has Long Predicted The Waterlessflood. Now It Has Occurred, Obliterating Most Human Life. Two Womenhave Avoided It: The Young Trapeze-dancer, Ren, Locked Into Thehigh-end Sex Club, Scales And Tails; And Former Secretburgersmeat-slinger Turned Gardener, Toby, Barricaded Into The Luxuriousanooyoo Spa, Where Many Of The Treatments Are Edible. Haveothers Survived? Ren's Bioartist Friend Amanda, Or The Maddaddameco-fighters? Ren's One-time Teenage Lover, Jimmy? Or The Murderouspainballers, Survivors Of The Mutual-elimination Painball Prison? Notto Mention The Corpsecorps, The Shadowy And Corrupt Policing Force Ofthe Ruling Powers… Meanwhile, In The Natural World, Gene-splicedlife Forms Are Proliferating: The Lion/lamb Blends, The Mo'hair Sheepwith Human Hair, The Pigs With Human Brain Tissue. As Adam One And Hisintrepid Hemp-clad Band Make Their Way Through A Ruined World, Singingtheir Devotional Hymns And Faithful To Their Creed And To Their Saints- Saint Francis Assisi, Saint Rachel Carson, And Saint Al Gore Amongthem - What Odds For Ren And Toby, And For The Human Race? By Turns Dark, Tender, Violent, Thoughtful And Uneasily Hilarious, The Year Of The Floodis Atwood At Her Most Effective.