Jenny Offill's lapidary masterwork, 'Weather,' is about unstable climates and families.
, Rachel Cusk and Jenny Erpenbeck, Offill eschews traditional storytelling in order to pursue deeper meaning and coherence, although in this book she doesn’t stray into autofiction’s hall of mirrors in the way that, say, Olivia Laing did in her 2018 novel, “Offill may not be the first to employ this style, but those who encounter it for the first time in “Weather” may need a page or three to adjust.
Lizzie’s friend Margot tells her that she and Henry are not just close but “enmeshed.” Yet as Henry becomes involved with an advertising executive, Catherine, Lizzie starts to believe that her burden can be handed over to someone else. Henry asks his sister what will happen if he sabotages his new marriage. “You will be forgiven,” she tells him.lies in tightly sewing together the small moments that make up a particular life and the huge questions that keep us all awake at night.
In composing “Dept. of Speculation,” Offill famously wrote all of her sections on index cards and shuffled them until she arrived at the right combination, but in “Weather” there appears to be less shuffling and more deliberation. That is not a bad thing at all. It takes nothing away from the power of “Speculation” to report
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