Early on, Sylvia brings Lizzie to a dinner with some of her podcast donors. Her mind is a wellspring of wry, cutting observations about motherhood, marriage, and, thanks to Sylvia, a possibly imminent apocalypse. In the course of assisting Sylvia, Lizzie becomes increasingly concerned with questions of what to do in a world in which climate change seems to be headed for apocalyptic territory.Īs narrator, Lizzie Benson is delightful company.
Sylvia has become something of a celebrity among people worried that the world-or at least civilization as they know it-will soon end. Her old academic mentor, Sylvia Liller, reaches out to Lizzie with a proposal: she’ll pay her to answer the email she receives from listeners to her podcast, Hell and High Water. The novel is narrated by Lizzie Benson, a once-promising graduate student turned university librarian. of Speculation, would be impossible in Offill’s latest novel, Weather. They watch it through the window from their bed. of Speculation, the narrator makes an observation about the rural town to which the married couple at the novel’s center has moved: Near the end of Jenny Offill’s acclaimed second novel, Dept.
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