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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