God's Grace

A modern-day dystopian fantasy—the last novel from the Pulitzer Prize winner and two-time winner of the National Book Award.

The novel's protagonist is paleolosist Calvin Cohn, who had been attending to his work at the bottom of the ocean when the Devastation struck, and who alone survived. This rabbi's son—a "marginal error" —finds himself shipwrecked with an experimental chimpanzee capable of speech, to whom he gives the name Buz. Soon other creatures appear on their island—baboons, chimps...