![]() ![]() These are all pertinent questions, but what I found most compelling was the protagonist’s close, almost codependent, relationship with her brother – a depressive and a recovering addict. It asks us what it means to raise a child in a world facing climate collapse, and distills and intermingles the micro- and macro-anxieties of contemporary life. But I was delighted to find that same unpretentious profundity, that quick wit, that macabre obsession. ![]() of Speculation is one of my favourite works of fiction of all time. I came nervously to this book, because her last novel Dept. Jenny Offill’s Weather is a story through the eyes of Lizzie: an academic librarian, mother and assistant to a doomsday futurist – her former research supervisor and host of a popular podcast. ![]()
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