5/23/2023 0 Comments Weather offill reviewin classics but creates educational video games for a living, they have a son, Eli, whose survival on a rapidly heating planet is an expected source of anxiety for both parents. When she’s not traveling to environmental conferences with Sylvia, her former academic mentor, Lizzie works in a university library. As a well-known figure in the climate change space, Sylvia receives many emails from listeners who are either “crazy or depressed.” To keep up, she hires Lizzie Benson, the protagonist, and narrator of Weather, who picks up on the urgency of the climate catastrophe and becomes increasingly preoccupied with the not-so-distant possibility of societal collapse. “What it means to be a good person, a moral person, is calculated differently in times of crisis than in ordinary circumstances,” explains Sylvia, the host of Hell and High Water, a fictional podcast from Jenny Offill’s latest novel, Weather.
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