![]() Where Dept.’s unnamed narrator was a novelist and professor saddled with a side job ghostwriting a wealthy man’s history of the space program, Weather’s Lizzie is a university librarian with a gig answering listener emails for her mentor’s podcast about ecological catastrophe, Hell or High Water. of Speculation’s fragmentary, epigrammatic form. Offill’s new novel, Weather, returns to Dept. of Speculation says that all we retain of a relationship are our memories: the good ones, the bad ones, and a handful of cryptically significant in-betweens. This form is tailored to the book’s content, a brief history of a marriage from its beginning to its near-ending as a result of the husband’s infidelity. It comprises dozens of short blocks of text, the longest a few pages, the shortest no longer than the message in a fortune cookie. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jenny Offill’s debut, Last Things, appeared two decades ago, but her breakout book was 2014’s Dept. ![]()
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