![]() of Speculation,” a book specifically about adultery, will recognize the author’s style, a pastiche of pithy scenes, jokes, adages and ephemera. Those who have read Offill’s 2014 novel, “ Dept. That’s not to mention Lizzie’s mother, her boss, her frenemy Nicola, a neighborhood bigot and a host of other people she’s stuck between wanting to please and asking to please go away. In Jenny Offill’s remarkable and resonant new novel, “Weather,” a middle-aged mom named Lizzie contends with a kind but passive husband, Ben their somewhere-on-the-spectrum son, Eli a more definitively troubled brother, Henry and Henry’s ambivalent new wife. ![]() ![]() But when their red alerts turn out to be accurate, woe betide those who ignore them. Both of these augurers get a lot wrong a lot of the time. ![]() Mothers look for patterns too, in attempting to predict family disturbances. Meteorologists look for patterns where none might exist in attempting to predict the weather. ![]()
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