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.
Offill, Jenny. (2020). Weather. New York: Alfred A Knopf.
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