The Year of the Flood (Margaret Atwood)

In 2003, when Margaret Atwood's much-lauded speculative novel Oryx and Crake came out, a group of my friends and I read it out loud together.  However, I was so uncomfortable reading the sections that melded sex and violence in disturbing ways that I stopped reading.  Later, I took up the book myself and finished it, but today I remember nothing about i…