![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Weather is written in a spare, fragmentary style with a fair dash of mordant humour (which readers will recognise from her previous novel Dept. Sylvia, her former university professor, then recruits her to answer listener queries for her climate change podcast “Hell or High Water.” These cover everything from the rapture to political theory: Do angels need sleep? What are the best ways to prepare my children for the coming chaos? What is the philosophy of late capitalism? What is the difference between a disaster and an emergency? Yet, there is no disaster or catastrophe in this book rather, it is about everyday life in an era of the climate crisis. Lizzie Benson is a white, middle-class librarian from New York whose life revolves around her brother Henry, a recovering drug addict, her husband Ben, their mildly strained marriage, and her precocious son, Eli. ![]()
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