'MaddAdams' by Margaret Atwood

MaddAdams, Margaret Atwood (4)

This book ended up being my favorite of the three in the series (‘Oryx and Crake’ and ‘The Year of the Flood’ being the first two). It was the most coherent and meaningful to me. ‘Oryx and Crake’ was the cryptic tale of a post apocalypse world in which a seemingly lone survivor describes his current situation with a slight reach back to the past. The second book, ‘The Year of the Flood’, takes us back to before the apocalypse and gives more explanation and introduces other survivors. In the last book more of the holes in the mystery are filled in as Toby, one of the remaining gardeners, tells stories to the Crakers (the engineered ‘people’ designed and built by Oryx and Crake) as they all try to survive in their current times amongst the odd new animals and other, more malevolent survivors. I appreciated how this book wrapped up the trilogy and gave back story to some of the main characters that were deeply involved in the apocalypse.