Margaret Atwood's The Year Of The Flood

The Year of the Flood is a complex yet captivating book. There are many things going on at once during the first 20 chapters that we read. I don't think I have ever read a book that shifts narration as much as this book does. Just about every chapter is a different person's narration than the previous chapter. Although this first confused me, I now think that it makes the book even more unique. Through a bit of research, I found that this is actually the second book in Atwood's dystopian triology, which makes sense. My main question about this book is: what is a waterless flood? I hope that this answer will be presented before the end of the book as the characters are continuously mentioning it, but have yet to explain what it is.

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