In Awe of "The Year of the Flood"

I just finished reading Margaret Atwood's new novel, The Year of the Flood, and I'll gush about it. When I started the book, I hadn't realized it related to her earlier novel of dystopia, Oryx and Crake. While I'm a fan of her novels and poetry, the opening of Oryx and Crake did not grab me, and at the time, I was looking for a new novel to teach in my college English classes, so I moved ...

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