humor is saving humor it's as if she's splashing vinegar to deglaze a pan." Offill's writing is brisk and comic, and her book's format underlines her gifts. Hello Giggles - "11 Best New Books to Read in February"īustle - "22 Most Anticipated Books of February" Lit Hub - "14 Book You Should Read in February"Įntertainment Weekly - "20 New Books to Read in February" PureWow's "13 Books We Can't Wait to Read in February." Good Housekeeping's "20 Best Books of 2020," Thrillist's "21 Books We Can't wait to Read in 2020," New York Times' "14 New Books to Watch in February," Lit Hub's "14 Books You Should Read in February"ĪV Club's "5 New Books to Read in February," One of the Wall Street Journal Magazine's 10 must-read books this winter 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. 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. 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. Her side hustle is answering the letters that come in to Hell and High Water, the doom-laden podcast hosted by her former mentor.
Lizzie works in the library of a university where she was once a promising graduate student.
of Speculation comes a "darkly funny and urgent" (NPR) tour de force about a family, and a nation, in crisis. Description NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the beloved author of the nationwide best seller Dept.
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