PositiveThe Daily Mail (UK)Feeling worried about climate change has now been recognised as a legitimate mental health issue. If you suffer from it, you might find Jenny Offill\'s excellent third novel tips you over the edge ... Using her characteristic, epigrammatic prose style that\'s both jittery and deadpan at the same time, Offill presents us with a wryly funny state-of-the-nation novel wired to the hilt with a dread that\'ll infect your dreams.
Rachel Cusk
RaveThe New York Times Book Review\"All three are narrated in the first person by a writer named Faye whose former life has gone up in flames, but they’re not about how or why the fire started. Instead, the novels describe in precise and haunting detail what it’s like to walk through the world, trailing ashes behind you. Most of us look away from such people. We don’t want to believe our houses could burn down too ... Part of the wonderful deadpan humor of the novels is that no matter how logical her objections are, no one ever revises his or her story ... She is deeply interested in the question of suffering, of whether or not there is value to it, and in this novel, she signals her inquiry right out of the gate.\
