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The year of the flood by Margaret Eleanor Atwood

The year of the flood, written by Margaret Eleanor Atwood in 2009, is actually the second book in the MaddAddam trilogy, also by Margaret Atwood. This feels like a timely book to be posting, since the book is about a horribly infectious disease that spreads across the globe and almost wipes out mankind. The novel follows the stories of two women who have survived the disease in wildly different environments: one woman locked in a strip club, and the other in a luxury spa, living off the organic, edible spa treatments that were left behind. But both women are beginning to run low on food…is it safe yet to venture outside? Meanwhile, there are some very smart pigs running amok, among other mutations that make the world that much more uncertain and frightening.

Margaret Atwood was born in Canada in 1939. As of this writing, she still works and lives in Canada. She is best known for her novel The Handmaid’s Tale, which was turned into a TV show on Hulu.

• Atwood, Margaret Eleanor. The Handmaid’s Tale. Heinemann, 1993.

• Atwood, Margaret. The Year of the Flood: a Novel. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2009.

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• “The Handmaid’s Tale.” IMDb, IMDb.com, 26 Apr. 2017, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5834204/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0.