When a young man disappears, Leigh and Iain are thrown together to investigate the truth at the island’s dark heart and reveal hidden secrets of their own. Rich with historical detail, a skillful speculative edge, and a deep imagination, Emma Seckel’s propulsive and transporting debut The Wild Hunt unwinds long-held tales of love, loss, and redemption.
The ominous, birdlike creatures of Celtic legend―whispered to carry the souls of the dead―have haunted the islanders for decades, but in the war’s wake, there are more wandering souls and more sluagh. Author Jenny Offill felt a creeping sense of dread when she delved into climate science while writing her her new novel, Weather, which features a woman who produces a climate change podcast. of Speculation comes a darkly funny and urgent (NPR) tour de force. She lives in upstate New York and teaches at Syracuse University and. of Speculation, which was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Pen Faulkner Award and the International Dublin Award. The islanders have only three rules: don’t stick your nose where it’s not wanted, don’t mention the war, and never let your guard down during October. But this October is anything but normal. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the beloved author of the nationwide best seller Dept. Jenny Offill is the author of the novels Last Things (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the L.A. The way that we kind of move between these calibrations of emergency and everydayness was something that I wanted to try to capture in Weather.A transporting, otherworldly debut of a young woman’s fated return to a wind-battered island off the coast of Scotland, and the dark forces―old and new―that she finds there. Jenny Offill her protagonist begins in a state of ‘twilight knowing’, between denial and knowledge.
Or we’re realizing our car doesn’t start. How much can you show the way that often in our real lives we take in information, which is that we might take in something that is a huge existential crisis for the world, but then a moment later, we’re helping our kids get ready for school. But I also think it’s quite interesting to me to see how much can you show in a glancing way. I think we have an idea, especially in America, that an ambitious novel is a sprawling, huge novel. Jenny: I think that’s just part of what interests me as a writer, is this idea of how much can be distilled into a small space.
Kendra: When I picked up the book and read that it was about climate change, I was like, wow, this is such a concise book dealing with such a large topic. In this week’s episode, Kendra chats with Jenny Offill, the author of Weather, which is out now in paperback from Vintage.
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