MaddAddam [Paperback]

From the #1 New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Handmaid's Tale

In this final volume of the internationally celebrated MaddAddam trilogy, the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of the population. Toby is part of a small band of survivors, along with the Children of Crake: the gentle, bioengineered quasi-human species who will inherit this new earth.

As Toby explains their origins to the curious Crakers, her tales cohere into a luminous oral history that sets down humanity’s past—and points toward its future. Blending action, humor, romance, and an imagination at once dazzlingly inventive and grounded in a recognizable world,MaddAddamis vintage Atwood—a moving and dramatic conclusion to her epic work of speculative fiction.

A New York Times Notable Book
A Washington Post Notable Book
A Best Book of the Year: The Guardian, NPR, The Christian Science Monitor, The Globe and Mail
A GoodReads Reader's Choice

Lights a fire from the fears of our age. . . . Miraculously balances humor, outrage, and beauty. —The New York Times Book Review

Margaret Atwood is an utterly thrilling storyteller. . . . [MaddAddamis] wonderfully entertaining and just about everything you could want in a novel. —The Washington Post

“Thoughtful, sardonic, and full of touches that almost resemble a fairy tale, MaddAddam will stick with you long after you’ve put it down.” —NPR

The most profound [book] of the trilogy. . . . An adventure story and a philosophical meditation on humanity's predilection for carnage and creation. —The Economist
 
[Atwood’s] most incisive and sociologically acute work. . . . A picture of a very near and very plausible future. &mdal{