Status Updates From Oryx and Crake

…it’s about marketing, it’s about class, it’s about trust, the mother wound, Oedipus, competitive friendship, hierarchy. it’s devastating. all the trigger warnings. but I love it. margaret atwood the woman you are!!

I keep thinking I can summarize this novel’s concepts but then changing my mind. it’s about sex, a wide-angle, zoomed out take on human sexuality, the mating cycles of mammals and the twisted outcome of mens’ desire in a post ethical dystopia— but then it’s about selective perception, innocence, finding a way to exist within nature without causing harm. but then it’s also about capital