Jenny Offill's Weather
I really liked Offill's last novel, Dept. of Speculation, but this one didn’t work as well for me. It’s also a sort of stream of consciousness novel, and while I did like the narrative voice a lot—she’s a librarian, dealing with an addict brother, trying to balance her work and kid and husband and side job answering emails for a podcast host, etc—but it’s just kind of all over the place. I appreciate that it was trying to present a hopeful look at the future (while still discussing our current harsh truths), but I just never felt connected to any of it. B.
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A review copy was provided by the publisher. This book will be released on February 11th.
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