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Weather

By: Jenny Offill
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
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"What are you afraid of, he asks me and the answer of course is dentistry, humiliation, scarcity, then he says what are your most useful skills? People think I'm funny."

Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practise her other calling: as an unofficial shrink. For years, she has supported her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabilized for the moment, but then her old mentor, Sylvia Liller, makes a proposal. Sylvia has become famous for her prescient podcast, 'Hell and High Water', and wants to hire Lizzie to answer the mail she receives: from left-wingers worried about climate change and right wingers worried about the decline of western civilization.

As she dives into this polarized world, she begins to wonder what it means to keep tending your own garden once you've seen the flames beyond its walls. When her brother becomes a father and Sylvia a recluse, Lizzie is forced to acknowledge the limits of what she can do. But if she can't save others, then what, or who, might save her?

And all the while the voices of the city keep floating in - funny, disturbing, and increasingly mad.

©2020 Jenny Offill (P)2020 Jenny Offill Literary Fiction Psychological Fiction Genre Fiction Sagas
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There's barely any plot to this book. It's more like a stream of neurotic thoughts with the occasional piece of historical or geographical trivia thrown in.
Cassandra Campbell reads it in a calm and dreamy way. It was hard to stay engaged, or to care.
Not very satisfying.

A Stream of Consciousness

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