The reality for most people is that their own mothers, and the prospect of motherhood, will be hyper specific. If it’s always been possible for you to have children, you might assume everyone thinks in terms of “Do I want them at all?”. If you find it easy to love your mother, it can be difficult to see that someone else might not. 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.One of the big problems with experiences that seem universal, in this case having a mother or becoming a mother, is that we have a tendency to assume that they are universal that what’s true for one person or one instance will hold true for another. 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. 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. Her side hustle is answering the letters that come in to Hell and High Water, the doom-laden podcast hosted by her former mentor. Lizzie works in the library of a university where she was once a promising graduate student. of Speculation comes a 'darkly funny and urgent' (NPR) tour de force about a family, and a nation, in crisis. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the beloved author of the nationwide best seller Dept. 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. 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. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER From the beloved author of the nationwide best seller Dept.

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