She takes the reader inside the thoughts of a young woman, Lizzie, who is juggling many of life's trials. When one reads as many book as I do, the search for something different but good, is ongoing. The police came to take a report, but (the turtle) couldn’t help them. “A turtle was mugged by a gang of snails. As much as this novel delights in absurdity, its comedy is freighted with darkness. Inaction and indecision permeate Weather, as does the ‘incredulity response’: the human tendency to freeze up in a crisis, the brain unable to take in what is happening.
This extends not just to domestic worries, but an impending existential doom. This is a novel more concerned with potentialities, the tension of the time before, of something about to happen. There are plot threads-Lizzie meets an attractive stranger supports her addict brother works as an assistant for the charismatic Sylvia who hosts a climate change podcast called “Hell or High Water” becomes obsessed with doomsday preppers-but these threads don't go very far. It’s got wit and wisdom and a fantastic narrative voice in librarian Lizzie. This novel is both sardonic and warm, reflective of our anxious times but also strangely reassuring. It won’t be to everyone’s taste, thanks to the choppy style, specific brand of humour and refusal to deliver conventional narrative movement, but I thought it was brilliant.
“First they came for the coral, but I did not say anything because I was not a coral.” : to come safely through a difficult period or experience : the state of the atmosphere at a particular place and time
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