What are you afraid of, he asks me and the answer of course is dentistry, humiliation, scarcity, then he says what are your most useful skills? People think I'm funny' Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER From the beloved author of the nationwide best seller Dept. of Speculation-one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year-a "darkly funny and urgent" (NPR) tour de force about a...

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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...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 'This is so good. We are not ready nor worthy' Ocean Vuong 'What are you afraid of, he asks me and the answer of course is dentistry, humiliation, scarcity, then he says what are your...

From the acclaimed author of Weather comes a slim, stunning portrait of a marriage--a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all.ONE OF THE 10...

"Weather" von Jenny Offill ist ein tiefgründiger Roman, der die Geschichte einer Bibliothekarin namens Lizzie Benson erzählt. Lizzie ist nicht nur mit ihrer Familie und ihrem Job beschäftigt, sondern auch mit den wachsenden Sorgen um die...

Now in paperback, an electrifying account of marriage and motherhood, love and madness, which won the Ellen Levine Award. von Offill, Jenny