Humor in The Year of the Flood

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

In my second reading of this book, I found myself giggling at the way the hymnology and rhetoric of God's Gardeners changed as their situation became more and more dire.

Did you enjoy writing the hymns? Would you have specific tunes in mind?

Where else in your oeuvre can you point to humorous bits?

[Deborah]

Oh, yes! I found irony in all those hymns and rhetoric of the Gardeners. It was also very poignant to read the references as a Christian and avid reader, some of them skewed. If the societial philosophies/spirituality of the survivors were distilled down to the essence of what was really important, and this was what they clung to, it all seemed so possible! Eerie!
Absolutely found myself adding specific tunes!! LOL

I loved the inclusion of greenish heros and persons
who had effected society for the good as "saints" in the Day "sermons." So humorous and ironic.