She is also a “fake shrink” to her brother, who is in recovery.
Lizzie Benson, the protagonist, is a librarian without a “proper degree for it”. It is a multi-layered, nuanced portrait of the inner experience of being at the heart of a rumbling world while accommodating within oneself the crisis of living in this moment of the ‘holocene’.Īt one level, the novel is domestic fiction. It congeals the peculiarities of the current moment: of coexisting crises, continuities between politics, and a life that isn’t single-issue any more. It is at times solipsistic, too fragmented, but its self-awareness is sobering. Weather wants us to embrace the need to act, to step up, at least to try. Weather : We are not only asked to imagine a better world but also to put it together “block by block”.
Weather, shortlisted for the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction, asks a single, all-important question: How do we channel our existential dread into action? In an online interview with Joe Dunthorne, Offill says that “action is the antidote to dread”.
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