Oryx and Crake (Jul 2021)

[Rachel]

In keeping with the interspersed fiction, I've picked this book as the July book! It features a world where things have really gone haywire, and that's really all I want to say. Here's a short blurb about it: "The novel focuses on a character called "Snowman", living in a post-apocalyptic world near a group of primitive human-like creatures whom he calls Crakers." It's not exactly science fiction, but it is a sort of tale of what happens when we mess with the world and that is on theme for this book club so enjoy!

[Rachel]

I finished it! The combo creatures (like the rakunk and wolvog) kind of make me upset because it's really symbolic of the arrogance of people. Same with the Crakers, in a way. Tinkering and changing the world around us usually leads to bad things happening, as seen in this tale too. Like much of Atwood's fiction, it's a cautionary tale of what can go wrong in the world or society when we start messing it all up for our own good and eventual downfall.... Anyway, I'd read this book before but not the rest of the trilogy so I'm going to read them this time!