Mad Adam

The final installment in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy, a dystopian suspense series. This book brings together characters from Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, centering on Zeb, who first appeared in Oryx and Crake as one of God's Gardeners. Atwood had not fully explored his background before. The novel takes place several months after the Flood wipes out most of humanity. Toby and Ren rescue their friend Amanda from the Painballers and return to the MaddAddam hideout. With them are the Crakers, a species created by the late Crake to replace humanity. When their prophet, Jimmy, Crake's former friend, recovers from a deadly fever, Toby takes on the task of interpreting the theology of Crake as their creator. She must also contend with cultural misunderstandings, terrible coffee, and her jealousy of her lover, Zeb. Meanwhile, Zeb is searching for Adam One, founder of God's Gardeners, who abandoned their peaceful green faith years ago to prepare the MaddAddamites to fight the destructive CorpSeCorps. Now, with a Painballer attack looming, the residents of MaddAddam must fight alongside their new allies, the Pigoons. And young Blackbeard, a Craker, learns from Toby how to keep records and tell stories, leaving something for the world that comes after them.