Clima
(Book)

"Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years, she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabilized for the moment, but Lizzie has little chance to spend her new free time with husband and son before her old mentor, Sylvia Liller, makes a proposal. She's become famous for her prescient podcast, Hell and High Water, and wants to hire Lizzie to answer the mail she receives: from left-wingers worried about climate change and right wingers worried about the decline of western civilization. As Lizzie dives into this polarized world, she begins to wonder what it means to keep tending your own garden once you've seen the flames beyond its walls. When her brother becomes a father and Sylvia a recluse, Lizzie is forced to address the limits of her own experience--but still she tries to save everyone, using everything she's learned about empathy and despair, conscience and collusion, from her years of wandering the library stacks . . . And all the while the voices of the city keep floating in--funny, disturbing, and increasingly mad."--,Provided by publisher.

"Lizzie Benson es bibliotecaria en Brooklyn. Divide sus atenciones entre su hijo Eli, su marido Ben y su hermano Henry, que se es̀t recuperando de su adicc̤in a la droga. Adèms, ayuda a una antigua profesora con el abundante correo que recibe por su exitoso podcast sobre cambio clìmtico, un tema que atrae a extremistas de todo tipo: desde aquellos que se preparan para el fin del mundo hasta los que afirman que la civilizac̤in cristiana occidental es̀t en peligro. Y aunque Lizzie intenta ser positiva, ni las clases de meditac̤in ni los consejos que extrae de los estantes de la biblioteca consiguen calmar su inquietud por la situac̤in de su hermano y por la furia que percibe en su entorno.Tras el fe̤nmeno que supuso Departamento de especulaciones, Jenny Offill vuelve a desplegar su prosa mordaz e inteligente y su exquisita construcc̤in fragmentaria para construir una historia que captura a la perfecc̤in el clima sentimental y po̕ltico, el caos y las contradicciones, en que vivimos inmersos. Radicalmente contempòrnea, esta aclamada novela sobre nuestro enfermo siglo XXI demuestra que el humor, la belleza y la esperanza son posibles incluso a las puertas del apocalipsis." --,Resęa del editor.

Text in Spanish.