A review by laura_corsi
Weather by Jenny Offill

2.0

Weather is written in a stream of consciousness style. It reminded me a lot of Severance by Ling Ma except it is what was happening before the illness ruined civilization and brought about the end of the world. I'm not sure how I would rate it. There were many insightful gems hidden in the poor Lizzie's maundering on, if only it were not true that this is indeed how each of us behaves. An omnipresent dread pervades Lizzie's thoughts. The tension before war breaks out or the end of the world begins. I loved the prose style on the page, it made it read a lot like poetry. I think this would be better read, for me, as poetry instead of all in one go.