![]() I noticed particularly,” she thinks, narrating her own life in the third person. She remembers an innocent question he once asked her in a café: “ When were you the happiest? Something she should have seen then, something about the look on his face, the way the air changed in that moment.” The memory induces an assault on her senses. When the narrator finally realizes her husband’s infidelity, it is only after she reconsiders a handful of disparate interactions. Our most intimate relationships are subject to atmospheric shifts that we don’t know so much as feel on the level of the body. Offill’s form, whereby narrative proceeds as a series of intimations, teaches us that destabilizing change doesn’t appear as discrete signs, but rather hangs in the air. How did her husband’s infidelity, the protagonist wonders, go unnoticed? “I am not very observant,” she thinks, but the truth is that there wasn’t much to observe. ![]() ![]() of Speculation, a troubled marriage triggers a crisis in perception. Jenny Offill’s Weather tracks its protagonist’s emotional unraveling over fears of everything from fascism to climate change. ![]() In Weather, Jenny Offill explores how our sense that society is on the cusp of disaster takes hold. ![]()
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