The likelihood of a doomsday now feels more real than ever. As the book is set in a world similar to our current world, events like the coming into power of President Donald Trump shake Lizzie’s life to the core. Going further into the book, you begin to realize that events are unfolding quickly and the characters are unable to keep up with everything. The thoughts are often scattered which portrays how people don’t often think things through as thoughts are mostly one-offs that never truly stick. Jenny does an excellent job of expressing the thoughts of these characters as real as possible. Through a podcast run by her close acquaintance, she keeps up with predictions that claim that doomsday is upon us all. Beneath all that, she is constantly haunted by the potential repercussions of climate change that is putting everything around her at a near standstill. In the book, Lizzie is a young woman who has to juggle being a wife, taking care of her parents, and a drug-addicted brother.

Despite humanity’s greatest efforts of globalization and technological advances, the deepest flaw comes from the fact that all the progress can be taken down easily with the swiftest touch of a crisis like climate change. Even then, humans tend to get caught up in the storm, unable to process the extent of damage that they’ve caused, leaving it all to crumble. The idea behind it is how humanity is never prepared for the worst until it finally comes. The book has a few plot narratives that hold the book as a novel, but what shapes it is the countless impending moments of destruction. It’s a book that tackles the controversial issues of climate change, politics, and domestic life through different characters who are either contributing to the climate change topic or taking away from it. Weather couldn’t have been published at a better time. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.

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