Loved this book. I see why people like that Margaret Atwood.
This is a post-apocalypse story. The book has good braided interplay between present action, internal musing and memory replay. It is very much like watching the narrator, Snowman, think through the purpose of existence in real time, or more specifically, why one should go on living after he has survived. In theme, it reminds me of the Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus, but in tone, this book is more fun and flirty (and by that I mean grave and sardonic).
Her prose is careful, and dense. She leaves much of the scene to the imagination and allows the reader to form her own opinion. Maybe this, in conjunction with her unflattering character study makes the story seem life-like, even for sci-fi. I’d be lucky to write like Atwood one day.
This is the first of a trilogy, and Reddit says it stands alone, so I will not be finishing the trilogy. But I absolutely ripped through this one.
10/10 very recommend!