Adams Street Library Book Club at POWERHOUSE Arena

Join us at POWERHOUSE Arena for a lively discussion of our January 2025 book club selection, Weather by Jenny Offill. Copies available for pickup at the Adams Street Library's temporary location at 1 John Street or check out Libby for e-book and audiobook versions.

From the Publisher:

"Lizzie works in the library of a university where she was once a promising graduate student. Her side hustle is answering the letters that come in to Hell and High Water, the doom-laden podcast hosted by her former mentor. At first it suits her, this chance to practice her other calling as an unofficial shrink—she has always played this role to her divorced mother and brother recovering from addiction—but soon Lizzie finds herself struggling to strike the obligatory note of hope in her responses. The reassuring rhythms of her life as a wife and mother begin to falter as her obsession with disaster psychology and people preparing for the end of the world grows. A marvelous feat of compression, a mix of great feeling and wry humor, Weather is an electrifying encounter with one of the most gifted writers at work today."