![]() ![]() ![]() of Speculation, which puts the narrator’s troubled marriage under a microscope, Weather consists of intense fragments that are by turns profound, funny, heartbreaking, startling, and mundane. For a vital perspective not found in the book, I recommend this article about environmental racism.Īs in Offill’s earlier novel, Dept. Written before Covid-19 and the sudden groundswell of support for Black Lives Matter, Jenny Offill’s ambitious novella Weather effectively explores the irresolvable paradox of living day-to-day while the world burns. To a pandemic and its health and economic fallout, to an uprising exposing and interrupting racism, and to the flagrant abuses of the GOP administration, we must add the crisis of climate change and confront a world metaphorically and literally on fire. ![]()
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