The Precursor to Weather

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It was shortlisted for the Penn Faulkner Award and the folio prize. I think she was working on the climate change, doomsday prepper stuff already and then the election happened. He's not named in the book but it's in there. The weight of it isn't there. Even thinking back on it, it's very slippery. Trying to recall how I felt in that post-Trump pre-pandemic time sliver. It was distinct though. It was a distinct.

When a book's plot and characters don't break a ton of ground in and of themselves, you're left hoping that the writing and the perspective will be enough to make a book interesting—luckily for us, Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation is insightful and entertaining despite its narrow scope and well-trod material.

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