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Weather
Reader Score
77%
77% of readers
recommend this book
Critic Reviews
Great
Based on 62 reviews on
2020 The New York Times Best Seller
Finalist:Women's Prize for Fiction -Fiction (2020)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the beloved author of the nationwide best seller Dept. of Speculation comes a "darkly funny and urgent" (NPR) tour de force about a family, and a nation, in crisis. Lizzie works in the library of a university where she was once a promising graduate student. Her side hustle is answering the letters that come in to Hell and High Water, the doom-laden podcast hosted by her former mentor. At first it suits her, this chance to practice her other calling as an unofficial shrink--she has always played this role to her divorced mother and brother recovering from addiction--but soon Lizzie finds herself struggling to strike the obligatory note of hope in her responses. The reassuring rhythms of her life as a wife and mother begin to falter as her obsession with disaster psychology and people preparing for the end of the world grows. A marvelous feat of compression, a mix of great feeling and wry humor, Weather is an electrifying encounter with one of the most gifted writers at work today.
Book Details
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: Jan 19th, 2021
- Pages: 224
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.10in - 0.80in - 0.50lb
- EAN: 9780345806901
- Categories: • Literary• Psychological• Sagas
About the Author
JENNY OFFILL is the author of the novels Last Things (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award) and Dept. of Speculation, which was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Pen-Faulkner Award, and the International Dublin Literary Award. She lives in upstate New York and teaches at Syracuse University and in the low-residency program at Queens University.
Critics’ reviews
Praise for this book
"Genius. . . . Remarkable and resonant. . . . The right novel for the end of the world."
--Los Angeles Times
"Tiny in size but immense in scope, radically disorienting yet reassuringly humane, strikingly eccentric and completely irresistible. . . . Luminous."
--The Boston Globe
"Brilliant. . . . Offill's writing is often brisk and comic, and her book's format underlines her gifts. . . . Weather is her most soulful book. . . . Offill's humor is saving humor; it's as if she's splashing vinegar to deglaze a pan."
--The New York Times Book Review
"Darkly funny and urgent. . . . Offill is a master of the glancing blow."
--NPR
"Jenny Offill is the master of novels told in sly, burnished fragments. . . . In Offill's hands, the form becomes something new . . . a method of distilling experience into its brightest, most blazing forms -- atoms of intense feeling. . . . These fragments feel like: teeming worlds suspended in white space, entire novels condensed into paragraphs. . . . What she is doing is coming as close as anyone ever has to writing the very nature of being itself."
--Parul Sehgal, The New York Times
"Weather holds its own with the strongest examples of the new non-speculative climate fiction. It has the feel of a classic, the kind of book that future humans will read in order to figure out what people were thinking in the early decades of the twenty-first century."
--Los Angeles Review of Books
"Glorious, dizzying, disconcerting and often laugh-out-loud hysterical."
--USA Today
"Time flies by in this wry story of a family--librarian Lizzie, her classics buff husband, their son, and her brother, a recovering addict. Apocalypse (climate and otherwise) looms over the narrative, and yet it is funny and hopeful too."
--Vanity Fair
"[Weather] solidifies the author's place among the vanguard of writers who are reinvigorating literature."
--O, The Oprah Magazine
"Compact and wholly contemporary, Jenny Offill's third novel sees a librarian find deep meaning and deep despair in her side gig as an armchair therapist for those in existential crisis. . . . A canny, comic story about the power of human need."
--Esquire
"An eerily realistic reflection on what it feels like to exist in a bubble of nonstop information."
--Time
"A beach read for those who like to worry about the beaches. . . . This is a pre-apocalyptic novel, and its subject is dread, not disaster."
--The Nation
"Like a sort of literary shadow box, the novel collects images and instances from the past few years, with the 2016 election as a clarifying point in this picture of a fraught and fragmenting world. . . . One of the wonders of Offill's writing is that her light touch lets us glimpse the very real dread lurking underneath."
--Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Offill has achieved the near impossible. She has made grappling with the climate crisis not only important and challenging -- but also, a tough assignment, entertaining."
--The Toronto Star
"Another perfectly wonderful trip inside the mind of Jenny Offill. . . . [Her] fiction is such a pleasure to read. . . . The funniness of many of her sentences indicates how precisely she calibrates them."
--Slate
--Los Angeles Times
"Tiny in size but immense in scope, radically disorienting yet reassuringly humane, strikingly eccentric and completely irresistible. . . . Luminous."
--The Boston Globe
"Brilliant. . . . Offill's writing is often brisk and comic, and her book's format underlines her gifts. . . . Weather is her most soulful book. . . . Offill's humor is saving humor; it's as if she's splashing vinegar to deglaze a pan."
--The New York Times Book Review
"Darkly funny and urgent. . . . Offill is a master of the glancing blow."
--NPR
"Jenny Offill is the master of novels told in sly, burnished fragments. . . . In Offill's hands, the form becomes something new . . . a method of distilling experience into its brightest, most blazing forms -- atoms of intense feeling. . . . These fragments feel like: teeming worlds suspended in white space, entire novels condensed into paragraphs. . . . What she is doing is coming as close as anyone ever has to writing the very nature of being itself."
--Parul Sehgal, The New York Times
"Weather holds its own with the strongest examples of the new non-speculative climate fiction. It has the feel of a classic, the kind of book that future humans will read in order to figure out what people were thinking in the early decades of the twenty-first century."
--Los Angeles Review of Books
"Glorious, dizzying, disconcerting and often laugh-out-loud hysterical."
--USA Today
"Time flies by in this wry story of a family--librarian Lizzie, her classics buff husband, their son, and her brother, a recovering addict. Apocalypse (climate and otherwise) looms over the narrative, and yet it is funny and hopeful too."
--Vanity Fair
"[Weather] solidifies the author's place among the vanguard of writers who are reinvigorating literature."
--O, The Oprah Magazine
"Compact and wholly contemporary, Jenny Offill's third novel sees a librarian find deep meaning and deep despair in her side gig as an armchair therapist for those in existential crisis. . . . A canny, comic story about the power of human need."
--Esquire
"An eerily realistic reflection on what it feels like to exist in a bubble of nonstop information."
--Time
"A beach read for those who like to worry about the beaches. . . . This is a pre-apocalyptic novel, and its subject is dread, not disaster."
--The Nation
"Like a sort of literary shadow box, the novel collects images and instances from the past few years, with the 2016 election as a clarifying point in this picture of a fraught and fragmenting world. . . . One of the wonders of Offill's writing is that her light touch lets us glimpse the very real dread lurking underneath."
--Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Offill has achieved the near impossible. She has made grappling with the climate crisis not only important and challenging -- but also, a tough assignment, entertaining."
--The Toronto Star
"Another perfectly wonderful trip inside the mind of Jenny Offill. . . . [Her] fiction is such a pleasure to read. . . . The funniness of many of her sentences indicates how precisely she calibrates them."
--Slate