In emergencies ‘eighty percent just freeze’, she reflects. In fact, she seems, like many people, to be paralysed. It’s not that Lizzie herself is propelled to act. Clearly, she is not alone in struggling to understand all that goes on. Weather by Jenny Offill puts words to what it’s like to live right now and thanks to her playful, fragmented writing style, this book is not nearly as depressing as it sounds.Īs a side job, Lizzie answers emails sent to a famous environmental podcast fittingly named Hell and High Water. How to absorb it all while going on living is the question. Climate change, Trump, threats to democracy, artificial intelligence, drug addiction – there’s plenty to worry about. What’s happening around her, however, is anything but. Librarian Lizzie Benson lives a pretty ordinary life in New York City with her husband Ben and son Eli.
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