And welcome to the show.

Today it's one of our deep dives.

Discussions, close reads, extended time with an Individual Title, this time.

It's a new title, one of our Big Book of 2020s of the Year.

We're going to do a few of these throughout the year.

We did one already on such a fun age by

Kylie Reed, Shrif and Vanessa, and I did that one. We've done Kitchen Confidential

a 20-year look back. We've got some other ones down the pike. This one was

voted on by the insider community

narrowly edging out new ways by Kevin Wynne which I'm expecting in the mail today frankly I am

halfway through it and really loving it yeah so so maybe that'll be our next one.

We could decide.

I think that will come up for a vote in a little bit.

But today's pick, today's subject,

today's anxiety locus is weather by Jenny Offville which the sub the sub head is a novel which

maybe is a place to start is this a novel what What is this exactly? It is whatever it is it is the same form

medium genre as Department of Speculation I would say well maybe that's our first but we can talk about that first but but of impression sort of in the thumbs up, thumbs down, medicritic kind of way, Rebecca.

The biggest of thumbs up and I think my text to you, I've read it twice now was

this hit me right in the existential.

Yeah, it's a gut punch, but not in a way sort of that

sometimes is, I don't know, characterizes a more maudlin or sentimental kind of but gut punch like your

Pixar gut punch.

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