RaveNew City LitJenny Offill has long been interested in the distinctions people make between what is big and important and what is trivial. In 2020, nothing captures this false dichotomy—of being of both monumental importance and the subject of the most inconsequential small talk—as the weather. In her tidy third novel, Offill puts these two sides of the conversation on the same plane, cleverly capturing the ways in which climate change and concurrent political strife take up space in our minds right alongside each day’s forecast ... quietly stunning.