![]() ![]() In addition to Weather, Offill is the author of two other novels, Department of Speculation and Last Things, as well as other books. It features a central character who is struggling to come to terms with what the climate crisis means for herself and her family-and what it means to care for each other in an increasingly precarious time. That’s what animates Jenny Offill’s powerful novel, Weather. Novelists such as Paulo Bacigalupe and Barbara Kingsolver (both of whom we’ve interviewed on Writer’s Voice), Kim Stanley Robinson and Margaret Atwood, among others, have written compellingly about a climate changed future.īut what about dealing with the climate changed present and the growing dread about it so many of us feel? ![]() ![]() So much so that “cli-fi” constitutes a separate genre. The climate emergency has been finding its way into more and more fiction. Rate us on iTunes or whatever podcast app you use! Like us on Facebook at Writers Voice with Francesca Rheannon, find us on Vurbl, or on Twitter Offill Writer’s Voice - in depth conversation with writers of all genres, on the air since 2004. Then, Ben Ehrenreich tells us about Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time. We talk with Jenny Offill about her acclaimed cli-fi novel, Weather. ![]()
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