The books doesn’t go on sale for another week, but Michiko Kakutani has already voiced her enthusiasm for The Year of the Flood in The New York Times. She concludes, “By focusing on her characters and their perilous journeys through a nightmare world, [Atwood] has succeeded in writing a gripping and visceral book that showcases the pure storytelling talents she displayed with such verve in her 2000 novel, The Blind Assassin.” Buy the novel on September 22nd!