PositiveThe Dallas Morning NewsAtwood allows not only optimism into her vision of a post-plague society, but also a good deal of humor and the beginnings of a new creation mythology and holy book … This time the story is told mostly from the point of view of Toby, a former Gardener. With Snowman-the-Jimmy, the Crakers’ reluctant prophet, sick and hallucinating, she ends up serving as a de facto apostle as she tells the childlike Crakers the story of their beginnings. Storytelling, it seems, is just as important to survival as food and shelter. Toby (who, incidentally, can converse with bees) struggles as she tries to satisfy the curiosity of a species whose questions never stop coming.
