![]() ![]() Which is to say, Offill is again working within the same form she mastered in Dept. In classic Offill fashion, we are served bite-sized chunks of narrative that pack a punch and short paragraphs that rely on referential points from across disciplines - literature, philosophy, biology, and technology. For a portion of the novel, they are joined by her brother Henry, a recovering addict. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lizzie is a grad school dropout turned librarian who lives with her husband Ben, a video game designer with a PhD in classics, and her precocious son Eli. of Speculation, this is a novel largely of intellectuals faced with marital, professional, and existential discord. But for a novel of such heady themes - existential malaise and climate guilt, anxiety, and panic - the end result is a treat. When asked about the best ways to prepare one’s children for the “coming chaos,” the protagonist of Jenny Offill’s new novel Weather responds, “You can teach them to sew, to farm, to build.” Then, more importantly, she adds, “Techniques for calming a fearful mind might be the most useful though.”Īs the title suggests, this is a novel about our changing weather, literally and politically: we are in a time of both climate crisis and political crisis. ![]()
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