![]() Even so, Weather is a wise and hopeful novel, managing to locate deep meaning in the act of bearing witness to our slow slide toward the end of days. What emerges is a powerful portrait of Trump’s America, brimming as it is with existential dread, nonstop information, and doomsday prophecies. It shows on the page, with the novel hewn from abundant white space into crisp paragraphs that function as gemlike koans. Offill has a kinetic mind-one that hops, skips, and free associates through troves of information. ![]() In answering their apocalyptic questions, Lizzie is pushed to her limits, making for a canny, comic story about the raw power of human need, particularly in divisive times. ![]() Lizzie teams up with her old mentor, newly minted podcast star Sylvia, who hires Lizzie to answer the avalanche of mail she receives from listeners who fear the end of the world, whether it be delivered by climate change or by a heavenly rapture. Weather is a slim novel about Lizzie Benson, a librarian by day and armchair therapist by night, who can’t help but shoulder the burdens of her loved ones. ![]() How do we continue to put one foot in front of the other when we’re beyond hope? That’s the question explored in Weather, the much-anticipated third novel from Jenny Offill. ![]()
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