How do these notes from a town meeting in Milford, Connecticut, in 1640, more than 350 years old, connect to themes in Weather? Would Lizzie consider herself to be a “Saint”? Would you?Ħ – At the beginning of the fifth and final chapter, spiritualist / yoga teacher / group therapist Margot asks her class a question: NOTES FROM A TOWN MEETING IN MILFORD, CONNECTICUT, 1640 Voted, that the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof voted, that the earth is given to the Saints voted, that we are the Saints. Before the novel begins, Offill includes a quotation as an epigraph. How would you characterize Lizzie’s relationship with her brother, Henry? Compare and contrast it with other relationships Lizzie has a duty to uphold, such as with her husband, Ben, and son, Eli?ĥ. How does Lizzie change over the course of the story? What specific examples did you see of her changing, or lack thereof?Ĥ.
What was the experience like to read a narrative like that? How does this unique format serve the story and its contemporary, zeitgeisty setting?ģ. Lizzie’s narrative is comprised of sentence and sometimes paragraph-long segments that build into a larger story. Why do you think Offill named her novel Weather? In what ways does weather show up as a theme in Offill’s novel?Ģ. I’d hold off on consulting these book club questions for Weather until after you’ve finished reading the novel.ġ. Note, these 10 discussion questions for Weather by Jenny Offill do spoil the story. If your book club selected Weather, this reading group guide has you covered.Īnd without further ado… here are some thought-provoking discussion questions on Weather for your book club! 10 Discussion Questions for Weather by Jenny Offill
I’ve already recommended this book as a book club book idea for 2020 in my related post about short book club book suggestions. This novel is particularly rich for discussion, and the novel is certainly getting so me buzz for its zeitgeisty, on-point relevance to this moment in time (yet, in its own way, timeless, too). In this post, I’m sharing 10 book club discussion questions for Jenny Offill’s novel Weather.
Wow, I thought, what powerful fiction! What a powerful writer! And having devoured Weather, Offill’s 2020 follow-up, I totally get it. of Speculation and taking a hard look at their own marriage, some of them even getting divorced not long after. of Speculation (2014), a story of a fraught marriage, but I remember hearing the buzz about it.
Somehow, I hadn’t read Offill’s hit novel Dept.
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