Book · 2020 · Fiction, family life
Weather
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Then i read a book called weather by jenny offel which is very it's very short sort of amazingly written book about people dealing with the essential threat of climate change.
The best things said about it
Another one that I recommended this month is a book called Department of speculation by Jenny oall who has a new book that just came out called weather which I think you talked about on the podcast last week.
And you know the novel is called weather by Jenny Ael it's about a young woman in New York City.
But she's here now to talk about another book she reviewed this week on our cover Jenny oil's weather.
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Why people recommend it
Weather by Jenny Offill is a concise, sharply written novel that captures contemporary anxieties surrounding the looming threat of climate change through the eyes of a young woman in New York City. Dan Pfeiffer recommended the book on Pod Save America in mid-2020, praising it as a remarkably written story about people dealing with environmental peril. The novel also received extensive coverage on The Book Review in mid-2024. Elisabeth Egan mentioned recommending Offill's work, connecting Weather to the author's earlier book Department of Speculation. Dwight Garner and Gilbert Cruz discussed the book's narrative style on the same review podcast, noting with Leslie Jamison that Offill's work focuses less on traditional plot and more on atmospheric tension and fragmented observations. The collective commentary highlights how Offill manages to distill massive, overwhelming global issues like climate catastrophe into intimate, sharply observed personal narratives. Podcast hosts and literary critics alike have celebrated the novel for its stylistic precision, urgency, and ability to reflect the psychological weight of living through uncertain modern times, cementing its status as an important contemporary work.
Every mention
Dan Pfeiffer then i read a book called weather by jenny offel which is very it's very short sort of amazingly written bo… 1
“then i read a book called weather by jenny offel which is very it's very short sort of amazingly written book about people dealing with the essential threat of climate change”
Gilbert Cruz but she's here now to talk about another book she reviewed this week on our cover Jenny oil's weather 2
“but she's here now to talk about another book she reviewed this week on our cover Jenny oil's weather”
“let's talk about weather and let's start with what it's about even though you know as we I think people are probably sensing when you talk about Jenny oil's work it really isn't about plot”
Dwight Garner and you know the novel is called weather by Jenny Ael it's about a young woman in New York City 1
“and you know the novel is called weather by Jenny Ael it's about a young woman in New York City”
Elisabeth Egan another one that I recommended this month is a book called Department of speculation by Jenny oall who has… 1
“another one that I recommended this month is a book called Department of speculation by Jenny oall who has a new book that just came out called weather which I think you talked about on the podcast last week”
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“this week in the book review she reviews on our cover weather a novel by Jenny oel”