Snowman lives - survives - in a post-apocolypic world as a prophet, of sorts, to the Children of Crake.
Flitting between Snowman's now and his pre-apocolypic past (when he was still called Jimmy), the story explains just who the Children of Crake are and why they are Jimmy/Snowman's responsibility.

Stretching your comfort zone. Atwood has a gift for turning the everyday mundane into futuristic extremism, which is invariably disquieting.

*The unravelling of the gods Oryx and Crake into the woman Jimmy loved and his childhood friend.

*The descriptions of the now-feral genetically modified animals and plants.

Hasen on to the sequel, The Year of the Flood.

Has also written The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace, among many, many others.

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