MaddAddam

MaddAddam
by Margaret Atwood
read: 2014
MaddAddam Series, Book Three

There's a metatextual element to MaddAddam, where the story itself is being written as a conscious part of the story. Toby journals her experiences, even though it's unclear whether in the post-apocalyptic world of the novel that there's even going to be a notion of written history. And after teaching Blackbeard to write, she is unsure whether she should have just let writing and history disappear rather than preserving it.

In The Year of the Flood we learn Toby's backstory and that she's never really found love or happiness. MaddAddam is really Zeb's tale, and we learn that he too has experienced loneliness and heartbreak. In a world that's destroyed, and where the human species is practically on the verge of extinction, it's touching that they find happiness together.