![]() ![]() ![]() Weather evokes, through an engaging narrator, the terrible, thrumming energy of this world on the edge and tells a human story to go along with it. This fragmentary style evokes the way we think and live today, the way we tweet and text, the way our attention is pulled from one topic to the next, dragged from the personal to the political then back again, often all within the space of a couple of minutes. The changing political and emotional weather of our times is charted. The election of Donald Trump is referred to, but his name is not. The anxiety Lizzie feels about the climate crisis and the end of the world bleeds into the life she has with her family. The micro follows the macro and vice versa. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates, review: The aching emotional burden of slavery “I just have to outrun you,” comes the reply. ![]() “You can’t outrun a bear,” the other says. The philosophy of late capitalism is illustrated, meanwhile, with a joke about two hikers encountering a hungry bear. ![]()
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