Offill offers an acerbic observer with a wide-ranging mind in this marvelous novel.” - Publisher’s Weekly “Compact and wholly contemporary, Jenny Offill’s third novel sees a librarian find deep meaning and deep despair in her side gig as an armchair therapist for those in existential crisis, including liberals fearing climate apocalypse and conservatives fearing the demise of ‘American values.’ As she attempts to save every’one, our protagonist is driven to her limits, making for a canny, comic story about the power of human need.” - Esquire As Lizzie obsessively researches disaster psychology and survivalist strategies, her answers grow increasingly apocalyptic and unhinged. Soon Lizzie is fielding questions from left wingers worried about climate change and right wingers worried about the decline of Western civilization. She wants Lizzie to answer the mail for her famous doom-laden podcast, Hell and High Water. But one day her old mentor, Sylvia, asks for a favor. She dropped out years ago in an attempt to rescue her younger brother from the throes of addiction. Lizzie is a Librarian at the university where she was once a promising graduate student.
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