![]() ![]() ![]() Her mentor, Sylvia, a national expert on climate change, who is fed up with her fans and wants Lizzie to take over answering her mail. Her brother, who has finally gotten off drugs and has a new girlfriend but still requires her constant, almost hourly, support. There’s the lady with the bullhorn who won’t let her walk her sensitive young son into his school building. Here, the mind we’re embedded in is that of a librarian named Lizzie-an entertaining vantage point despite her concerns big and small. of Speculation, 2014, etc.) third novel might be thought of as a more laconic cousin of Lucy Ellmann's Ducks, Newburyport. In its clever and seductive replication of the inner monologue of a woman living in this particular moment in history, Offill’s ( Dept. An ever growing list of worries, from a brother with drug problems to a climate change apocalypse, dances through the lively mind of a university librarian. ![]()
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