Weather by Jenny Offill will be our July pick. Cherry picking from a few reviews we find:
“Weather holds its own with the strongest examples of the new non-speculative climate fiction. It has the feel of a classic, the kind of book that future humans will read in order to figure out what people were thinking in the early decades of the twenty-first century.”
—Los Angeles Review of Books
“Brilliant. . . . Offill’s writing is often brisk and comic, and her book’s format underlines her gifts. . . . Weather is her most soulful book. . . . Offill’s humor is saving humor; it’s as if she’s splashing vinegar to deglaze a pan.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Tiny in size but immense in scope, radically disorienting yet reassuringly humane, strikingly eccentric and completely irresistible. . . . Luminous.”
—The Boston Globe
“Time flies by in this wry story of a family—librarian Lizzie, her classics buff husband, their son, and her brother, a recovering addict. Apocalypse (climate and otherwise) looms over the narrative, and yet it is funny and hopeful too.”
—Vanity Fair
“[Weather] solidifies the author's place among the vanguard of writers who are reinvigorating literature.”
—O, The Oprah Magazine
The book is available in e-book and e-audiobook form via Overdrive/Libby. Find the e-book here and the e-audiobook here. You may also stop by the library, we are now open, and pick up a paper copy.
We will meet via Zoom to discuss the book on July 24 at 3:00. Be sure to email me at ayosco@lapl.org if you plan to attend so I can make sure you are on the link list.
