PositiveFinancial TimesWeather has a comparable thickness of atmosphere [to Dept. of Speculation], though the anguish that suffuses the new book is as much public or political as it is private or personal ... The American writer Donald Barthelme observed that Adler’s book [Speedboat] offered \'glimpses into the special oddities and new terrors of contemporary life.\' One might say the same about Weather ... Weather is, as Offill once put it, \'funny as well as sad\' ... Offill also rewards her narrator with a nice line in homes in homespun wisdom about relationships.
