Weather, paperback/jenny offill

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER From the beloved author of the nationwide best seller Dept.

of Speculation -- one of the New York Times Book Review s Ten Best Books of the Year -- a darkly funny and urgent (NPR) tour de force about a family, and a nation, in crisis Lizzie works in the library of a university where she was once a promising graduate student.

Her side hustle is answering the letters that come in to Hell and High Water, the doom-laden podcast hosted by her former mentor.

At first it suits her, this chance to practice her other calling as an unofficial shrink--she has always played this role to her divorced mother and brother recovering from addiction--but soon Lizzie finds herself struggling to strike the obligatory note of hope in her responses.

The reassuring rhythms of her life as a wife and mother begin to falter as her obsession with disaster psychology and people preparing for the end of the world grows.

A marvelous feat of compression, a mix of great feeling and wry humor, Weather is an electrifying encounter with one of the most gifted writers at work today.

About author(s): JENNY OFFILL is the author of the novels Last Things (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award) and Dept.

of Speculation, which was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Pen-Faulkner Award, and the International Dublin Literary Award.

She lives in upstate New York and teaches at Syracuse University and in the low-residency program at Queens University.