Review

The Year of the Flood

by Margaret Atwood

Adam One, leader of God's Gardeners, has always tried to make
his followers ready for the Waterless Flood. The Gardeners, a
religious group centered on the veneration of nature and the
natural care of the body and soul, are anomalies in a world of
bio-engineered animals, horrible pollution, corrupt corporations,
extreme violence, poisonous foods, and much, much worse. But they
continue to tend their rooftop gardens, raise bees for honey, learn
about the diversity of nature, and remember the extinct animals.
The Gardeners also take in the lost and endangered: those wi