Jenny Offill’s Weather, a novel about modern family life set against the backdrop of the acute anxieties caused by climate change, political fracture, rampant social media, and addiction, is told with beguiling laugh-out-loud humor. “Weather solidifies the author’s place among the vanguard of writers who are reinvigorating literature.” (The Oprah Magazine). She analyzes our contemporary obsessions with one of the smartest recorders of US culture, New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino, author of the dazzling collection of essays Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion.
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