![]() Both books thrum with tension between the need to make meaning through art and to make (and protect) a next generation to carry it forward. Both narrators are writers who teach and take on side work to keep their households afloat. of Speculation, shares with Weather a fragmentary style, the narratives told in brief snippets of dialogue and sparsely drawn vignettes. Weather is Offill’s second novel with questions of creation, crisis, and motherhood at its center. “If climate departure happens in New York when predicted,” Lizzie continues, “Eli and Iris could-” But Sylvia cuts in: “Do you really think you can protect them? In 2047?” Sylvia is a climate change expert, a regular on the lecture circuit and host of a popular podcast called Hell and High Water. Lizzie is mother to a school-aged son, Eli, and new aunt to an infant named Iris. “I TELL HER that I’ve been thinking that we should buy land somewhere colder.” Lizzie, the narrator of Jenny Offill’s 2020 novel Weather, recounts a lunch with her boss, Sylvia, in a Manhattan restaurant. ![]()
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