Right after the Weather

ΓÇ£This timely novel takes on friendship,desirefearand vulnerability in one incisivewittyand powerful package.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöPeople ΓÇ£Astonishes with the force of its unexpected beauty.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöThe New York Times Book Review The author of the ΓÇ£graceful and compassionateΓÇ¥ (People) New York Times bestseller Carry the One presents a new and long-awaited novel exploring what happens when untested people are put to a hard testand in its aftermathfind themselves in a newly uncertain world. ItΓÇÖs the fall of 2016. Catea set designer in her early fortieslives and works in ChicagoΓÇÖs theater community. She has stayed too long at the fair and knows itΓÇÖs time to get past her prolonged adolescence and stop taking handouts from her parents. She has a firm plan to get solvent and settled in a serious relationship. She has tentatively started something new even as sheΓÇÖs haunted by an oldgoing-nowhere affair. Her ex-husbandrecently booted from his most recent marriageis currently camped out in CateΓÇÖs spare bedroomin thrall to online conspiracy theoriesand sheΓÇÖs not sure how to help him. Her best friend Nealea yoga instructorlives nearby with her son and is CateΓÇÖs model for what serious adulthood looks like. Only a few blocks awaybut in a parallel universe we find Nathan and IreneΓÇöcasual sociopathsdrug addictsand small-time criminals. Their world and CateΓÇÖs intersect the day she comes into NealeΓÇÖs kitchen to find these strangers assaulting her friend. Forced to take fastspontaneous actionCate does something sheΓÇÖs never even considered. She now also knows the violence she is capable ofas does everyone else in her lifeand overnighttheir world has changed. AnshawΓÇÖs flawedsympatheticand uncannily familiar characters grapple with their altered relationships and identities against the backdrop of the new Trump presidency and a country waking to a different understanding of itself. Eloquentmovingand beautifully observedRight after the Weather is the work of a master of exquisite prose and a wry and compassionate student of the human condition writing at the height of her considerable powers.