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If you are not already experiencing “climate dread,” the feeling that you’re living in a slow-mo ecological apocalypse that you’re powerless to stop, then Jenny Offill’s latest novel, Weather, will fill you to the brim with it.
Granted, your capacity to care about “climate dread” may be reduced if you’re currently suffering from rent-hike dread, hospital-bill dread, getting-shot-by-the-cops dread, and inability-to- retire dread, and that diminished capacity may prevent you from diving into Offill’s sustained meditation on the subject. However, if you are a little curious about it, her black humor and occasionally deep insights will keep your eyeballs glued to the page in search of a cure.
