Our narrator SNOWMAN is self-named, though not self-created. He's sleeping in a tree, wearing a dirty old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beautiful and beloved ORYX and his best friend CRAKE, and slowly starving to death. Earlier, SNOWMAN'S life had been one of privilege. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Was he himself in any way responsible? Why is he now left alone with his bizarre memories - alone except for the more-than-perfect green-eyed CHILDREN OF CRAKE, who think of him as a monster? He looks for answers by taking a double journey, back into his own past, and to CRAKE'S high-tech bubble dome, where the PARADISE PROJECT unfolded and the world came to grief. With breathtaking command of her material, ATWOOD again projects us into a less-than-brave new world. This is an outlandish yet wholly believable space, devastated in the wake of ecological and scientific disaster and populated by a cast of characters who will long inhabit your dreams.