NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved author of the nationwide best seller Dept. of
Speculation comes a "darkly funny and urgent" (NPR) tour de force about a family and a nation
in crisis. Lizzie works in the library of a university where she was once a promising
graduate student. Her side hustle is answering the letters that come in to Hell and High Water
the doom-laden podcast hosted by her former mentor. At first it suits her this chance to
practice her other calling as an unofficial shrink—she has always played this role to her
divorced mother and brother recovering from addiction—but soon Lizzie finds herself struggling
to strike the obligatory note of hope in her responses. The reassuring rhythms of her life as a
wife and mother begin to falter as her obsession with disaster psychology and people preparing
for the end of the world grows. A marvelous feat of compression a mix of great feeling and wry
humor Weather is an electrifying encounter with one of the most gifted writers at work today.
