![]() ![]() ![]() But then, laden with guilt over paper waste, she remarks, “I’ve already undone all the good I’d done in the world until now. In one such scene, Lizzie cleans mouse droppings from her spice rack with paper towels. of Speculation, Offill animates her overwhelmed protagonist through brief, energetic scenes that capture the ironies of modern life, and she continues in this mode, to great effect, in Weather. Though the world may not be ending quite yet, it often feels like it for librarian Lizzie Benson. ![]() And then, of course, there is the existential dread that comes with working for a podcast in which the host answers paranoid listeners’ questions about how to prepare for the end of the world. What I try to capture as a writer is the feeling of being alive, of being awake. There’s her precocious young son, who has just switched elementary schools to one that does not allow parents to walk their children into the building. There’s her brother, a recovering drug addict, who inserts himself into her life constantly, to her husband’s dismay. of Speculation discovers that her husband has been listening to a lecture series called The. This is a pre-apocalyptic novel, and its subject is dread, not disaster. The narrator of Jenny Offill’s latest novel, Weather, is anxious about a lot of things. When the narrator of Jenny Offill’s critically acclaimed and rightfully adored 2014 novel Dept. Offill skirts many of the difficulties of portraying climate change by not portraying it at all. ![]()
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