Jenny Offill is the author of the novels Last Things (finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award) and Dept. of Speculation (short-list for the Folio Prize, the Pen-Faulkner Award, and the International Dublin Literary Award). She lives in upstate New York and teaches at Syracuse University and in the low-residency program at Queens University.
Jenny Offill is the author of the novels Last Things (finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award) and Dept. of Speculation (short-list for the Folio Prize, the Pen-Faulkner Award, and the International Dublin Literary Award). She lives in upstate New York and teaches at Syracuse University and in the low-residency program at Queens University.
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Lizzie Benson is our depressed, immediately likeable narrator, who is looking to maintain the life she leads with her husband and young son in Brooklyn, while also fidgeting with the apocalyptic anxieties of the 21st century.
She works in a library, acts as an unofficial therapist for her brother, a recovering addict, and answers the mail sent in to her mentor’s podcast, Hell and High Water, which is listened to by left-wingers worried about the climate crisis and right-wingers worked up by the decline of Western civilisation.
