6/29/2023 0 Comments MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood![]() ![]() She makes sure there is care for Amanda, previously spirited and lively, but now a worn-out shell after the two repugnant (and dangerous) ‘Painballers’ have finished with her. At the ‘MaddAddamites’ cobb house she is able, among other things, to tend to Snowman, unconscious with a fever from the infection in his injured foot. She has benefited from her time as one of the ‘Eves’ in the God’s Gardeners eco-group, and has managed to get Snowman and Amanda to safety. Meanwhile in the present, we have Toby in as big a role as she had in The Year of the Flood, the second novel. Plenty of stuff is going on, but most of it is happening in Zeb’s back-story, the one he’s telling Toby, and that she is re-telling the not-quite human ‘Crakers’. So far this novel seems not as full of noise as the previous two. ![]() And the ways that stories are told seems to have become at least as important as the stories themselves. Her near-future critique of the trends she sees in our own time is as biting as ever, but the satire is less solemn than before. Is Atwood having more fun with this than in the first two novels in the trilogy? I think she might be – in this first third of the novel, she seems to be playing more games than usual. First six sections – Egg to Zeb in the Dark ![]()
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