Months after the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of humanity, Toby and Ren have rescued their friend Amanda from the vicious Painballers. It is not always a pretty picture, but it is true for all that.Audie Award Finalist, Science Fiction, 2014Ī Best Book of the Year: The Guardian, NPR, The Christian Science Monitor, The Globe and Mailīringing together Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, this thrilling conclusion to Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction trilogy points toward the ultimate endurance of community, and love. James Kidd of The Independent said, 'Atwood's body of work will last precisely because she has told us about ourselves. Ultimately, Zeb and Adam re-unite and work together in building God's Gardeners, the central organization in The Year of the Flood.Īndrew Sean Greer said in The New York Times, 'Atwood has brought the previous two books together in a fitting and joyous conclusion that's an epic not only of an imagined future but of our own past'. Knowing their father's political influence, Zeb and Adam leave home, take on different identities and separate in order to avoid detection. Disgusted by his father’s ethics and hypocrisy, Zeb hacks into his father's accounts and empties them. Their father, a preacher ('The Rev'), advocated a corporate-friendly message that espoused petroleum and shunned environmentalism. Zeb and Adam One (from The Year of the Flood) grew up as half-brothers. After Zeb and Toby become lovers, he tells her about his previous career. Similarly to the previous two books, the narrative switches periodically into the past.

These characters reunite with other survivors, develop a camp and start to rebuild civilization with the Crakers, all while the vengeful criminals (Painballers) stalk them. Ren and Toby meet up with Jimmy, the protagonist from Oryx and Crake. The narrative starts with Ren and Toby (protagonists in The Year of the Flood) rescuing another survivor (Amanda Payne) from two criminals, who had been previously emotionally hardened by a colosseum-style game called Painball. The novel continues the story of some of the same characters in the wake of the same biological catastrophe depicted in Atwood's earlier novels in the trilogy.

MaddAddam is written from the perspective of Zeb and Toby, who were both introduced in The Year of the Flood. While the plots of these previous novels ran along a parallel timeline, MaddAddam is the continuation of both books. MaddAddam concludes the dystopian trilogy that began with Oryx and Crake (2003) and continued with The Year of the Flood (2009). MaddAddam is a novel by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, published on 29 August 2013.

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