Knopf

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STARRED REVIEW

Weather

The title itself connoting climate conditions and the human ability to withstand and survive change, WEATHER feels both immediate and intimate.

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Review of ‘Weather’

Lizzie Benson, the protagonist of Jenny Offill’s smart, provocative new novel, Weather, has a lot on her mind.

Lizzie has opted out of a Ph.D. program and is underemployed at a university library in Brooklyn. She is the major supporter of her younger brother, Henry, whose addictions were the primary reason Lizzie abandoned graduate school…

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