The Year of the Flood, Margaret AtwoodThe long awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power. The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardenersa religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal lifehas long predicted a

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Seierstad is able to move between the private world of the women - including Khan's two wives - and the more public lives of the men

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New York Times editorial writer Binyamin Appelbaum tells the story of the people who sparked four decades of economic revolution

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