![]() ![]() Yet Lizzie attempts, even achieves, something heroic by the novel’s end. of Speculation, Lizzie is a keen, often hilarious observer, fiercely intelligent but utterly ignored and relatively powerless. As she grows “edgy and restless,” she listens to podcasts and lectures about glaciers, and to the seemingly trivial worries of Uber drivers and competitive mothers she meditates with Buddhists before watching TV shows about extreme shopping and drug addicts ambushed by their families. Lizzie, a librarian “not young or pretty enough to matter,” moves through a stunned city during and after an election. ![]() She allows us to see the world anew, as a place where we can-and must-encounter both discord and poetry. of Speculation, Offill captures both the “terrible music” and the “quiet radiance” of contemporary life. “Their radiance was faint and fainter still beneath the terrible music.” In Weather, as in her groundbreaking novel Dept. “All around us things tried to announce their true nature,” observes Lizzie, the heroine of Jenny Offill’s new novel, Weather. ![]()
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