From the Booker Prize-winning author ofOryx and Crake, the first book in theMaddAddam Trilogy, andThe Handmaid's Tale. Internationally acclaimed as ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by, amongst others, the Globe and Mail, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the Village VoiceThe Year Of The Floodis the second book of the internationally celebrated MaddAddam trilogy, set in the visionary world ofOryx and Crake -at once a moving tale of lasting friendship and a landmark work of speculative fiction. The long-feared waterless flood has occurred, altering Earth as we know it and obliterating most human life. Among the survivors are Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, who is barricaded inside a luxurious spa. Amid shadowy, corrupt ruling powers and new, gene-spliced life forms, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move, but they can't stay locked away.  But is anyone else out there?“Atwood is funny and clever. [She] knows how to show us ourselves, but the mirror she holds up to life does more than reflect... The Year of the Flood isn’t prophecy, but it is eerily possible.”-The New York Times Book Review