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MARGARET ATWOOD

Leading ladies of the book fair: Novelist, poet kick off Book Fair

''God gave unto the Animals / A wisdom past our power to see,'' goes a hymn sung by God's Gardeners, the ecologically minded, deeply spiritual but eminently practical religious cult in Margaret Atwood's fire-breathing new novel, The Year of the Flood.

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