In the Wake of the Flood

On the eve of her 70th birthday Canadian writer Margaret Atwood set out on an international tour crisscrossing the British Isles and North America to celebrate the publication of her new dystopian novel The Year of the Flood Rather than mount a traditional tour to promote a books publication Atwood conceived and executed something far more ambitious and revelatorya theatrical version of her novel Along the way she reinvented what a book tour could and maybe should be But Atwood wasnt selling books as much as advocating an idea how humanity must respond to the consequences of an environmentally compromised planet before her work of speculative fiction transforms into prophesy