![]() ![]() ![]() Lizzie also confers with a Zen meditation expert who frequents the library where she works. She attends Christian and Buddhist religious services in search of spiritual answers. Because of her fears about climate change, Lizzie wrestles with her own mortality and that of her family. To help Henry, Lizzie spends a great deal of her time taking care of his newborn daughter. Lizzie’s brother, Henry, is a recovering addict. ![]() Increasingly, Lizzie's passion involves managing her own environmentally themed podcast, Hell or High Water. Sylvia runs a popular podcast, The Center Cannot Hold, and Lizzie spends much of her time answering letters on Sylvia’s behalf. Presently, she works in the library of her former university and serves as an assistant to her former dissertation advisor, Sylvia. She raises her young son, Eli, with her husband, Ben. ![]() The Guardian called Weather "a dazzling response to climate crisis and political anxiety." The narrator, Lizzie, a lapsed PhD student living in Brooklyn, leaves school before completing her dissertation. Weather (2020), a novel by American author Jenny Offill, chronicles one woman's attempts to deal with marriage and motherhood while coping with the imminent planetary doom posed by climate change. ![]()
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