The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood

A tale of a dysfunctional future society and post-apocalyptic survival (or otherwise?) that celebrates and gently mocks the extreme environmentalist religion whose members are among the few with the skills and resources to endure after the "flood" of illness that wipes out most of the population. Closely entwined with her previous novel Oryx and Crake, this features several of the same characters and institutions and is set during roughly the same period of time. I enjoyed it, although it is pretty violent in places and some of her ideas of the future are rather disturbing, particularly in the light of her comment in the acknowledgements section that the novel "is fiction, but the general tendencies and many of the details in it are alarmingly close to fact".