Our Book of the Week is Weather by Jenny Offill. Very funny on top of an underlying anxiety, Offill's new novel is a record of the burdens and ironies of contemporary urban life — motherhood, sisterhood, wifehood, workerhood — exemplified in Lizzie's endless surges of underachievement and misdirection. 
>>Read Thomas's review.
>>Offill on "the subtraction of weight" and other interesting matters. 
>>Writing the perfect worry novel. 
>>Writing Weather turned Offill into an activist. 
>>"I no longer felt that it wasn't my fight."
>>Have we chosen to be a fearful society? 
>>Order your copy. We'll get this to you as soon as the emergency has been downgraded. 
>>Read Thomas's review of Offill's previous novel, Dept. of Speculation.