Bringing togetherOryx and CrakeandThe Year of the Flood, this thrilling conclusion toMargaret Atwood'sspeculative fiction trilogy points toward the ultimate endurance of community, and love.Months after the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of humanity, Toby and Ren have rescued their friend Amanda from the vicious Painballers. They return to the MaddAddamite cob house, newly fortified against man and giant pigoon alike. Accompanying them are the Crakers, the gentle, quasi-human species engineered by the brilliant but deceased Crake. Their reluctant prophet, Snowman-the-Jimmy, is recovering from a debilitating fever, so it's left to Toby to preach the Craker theology, with Crake as Creator. She must also deal with cultural misunderstandings, terrible coffee, and her jealousy over her lover, Zeb.Zeb has been searching for Adam One, founder of God's Gardeners, the pacifist green religion from which Zeb broke years ago to lead theMaddAddamitesin active resistance against the destructive CorpSeCorps. But now, under threat of a Painballer attack, theMaddAddamitesmust fight back with the aid of their newfound allies, some of whom have four trotters. At the centre ofMaddAddamis the story of Zeb's dark and twisted past, which contains a lost brother, a hidden murder, a bear, and a bizarre act of revenge.Combining adventure, humour, romance, superb storytelling, and an imagination that is at once dazzlingly inventive and grounded in a recognizable world,MaddAddamis vintageMargaret Atwood, and a moving and dramatic conclusion to her internationally celebrated dystopian trilogy.