TY - BOOK AU - Atwood,Margaret TI - The Year of the Flood T2 - MaddAddam SN - 9780739328507 U1 - F ATW PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Random House Large Print KW - Environmental disasters KW - Fiction KW - Regression (Civilization) KW - Genetic engineering KW - Epidemics KW - FICTION / Science Fiction / Genetic Engineering KW - bisacsh KW - FICTION / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic KW - Authors, Canadian KW - Canadian fiction KW - Large type books N2 - 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 Gardeners--a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life--has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible ER -