02271cam a22003135i 4500 21068528 OSt 20231009155202.0 190711s2020 nyu 000 0 eng 2019945794 9781783789337 9780385351102 (hardcover) 9780385351119 (ebook) DLC eng rda DLC pcc 813.54 OFF/W Offill, Jenny, author. Weather / Jenny Offill. 2002 New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. 207 pages text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years, she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabilized for the moment, but Lizzie has little chance to spend her new free time with husband and son before her old mentor, Sylvia Liller, makes a proposal. She's become famous for her prescient podcast, Hell and High Water, and wants to hire Lizzie to answer the mail she receives: from left-wingers worried about climate change and right wingers worried about the decline of western civilization. As Lizzie dives into this polarized world, she begins to wonder what it means to keep tending your own garden once you've seen the flames beyond its walls. When her brother becomes a father and Sylvia a recluse, Lizzie is forced to address the limits of her own experience--but still she tries to save everyone, using everything she's learned about empathy and despair, conscience and collusion, from her years of wandering the library stacks . . . And all the while the voices of the city keep floating in--funny, disturbing, and increasingly mad"-- Provided by publisher. 0 ibc orignew 2 epcn 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 813.54 OFF/W 813.54 OFF/W 0 0 ddc 0 0 FIC MES MES ENG 2023-10-09 4 4 813.54 OFF/W 42847 2025-09-15 14:07:29 2025-08-29 599.00 2023-10-09 BK GR19R1 42615 42615