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Violence
A lot
The Painballers represent brutal violence; Zeb's backstory contains significant danger and death; the aftermath of near-human-extinction as a texture throughout
Language
Some
Some strong language in Atwood's literary voice
Sexual Content
Some
Adult relationships; the Craker sexuality is unusual and depicted with anthropological distance
Substance Use
Some
Moderate substance use in the survivor culture
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The weight of being the last humans; the moral and philosophical load of the trilogy's questions about what we made and what we destroyed; best read as book 3 of 3
What this book is about
The concluding volume of Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy. The flood has receded. Toby and Zeb and a small band of human survivors have found each other, along with the Crakers — the gentle, innocent, genetically engineered species designed by Crake as humanity's replacement. Toby tells the Crakers stories about their origins while Zeb's complicated past is revealed, and the threat of the Painballers — violent survivors of the prison-run television show that predated the plague — closes in. Atwood's finale is interested in story itself: how we tell it, how we shape it, how our children inherit what we cannot say directly. Best read after Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
graphic violence in the Painballer sections
best read as book 3 of the MaddAddam trilogy
adult content throughout
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