That’s been a great, very stabilizing thing for me. I much more have routines and learned routines, because I’m a parent. I’m not naturally a very addictive person because I don’t have many habits. YOUNG: The garbage bin outside is just one giant recycling bag. Like, when I was younger, I would occasionally get some job somewhere where I would live by myself and I’d have to tell myself, “You know, I don’t think you should buy the wine because you will drink all the wine.” I always go down that whole road in my mind, thinking about how of course that would be nice. I have so many good friends and people I’ve been close to over the years that have really struggled with addiction. YOUNG: You have a line about not being so addicted to something that you can’t still enjoy it.
When I don’t get sleep, it’s like the little thing that holds everything together. They’re always a little bit like, ‘Oh, yeah I guess you do take it more often than you might need to.’ Then I go off it when I don’t have to get up early in the morning and when I don’t have to function well. I ask about it when I do it for a long period of time and that’s the answer I get. I am a life-long insomniac who goes in and out of taking sleeping pills. I think when they say habituated it’s a nice word to say, yeah you need this thing, you’re taking it all the time, you’ll have some withdrawal if you stop, but it’s not like, medically concerning us. OFFILL: Nobody’s asked me that! I was waiting to see if anybody would catch on to that. YOUNG: Let’s talk about this idea of addicted versus habituated. We spoke with Offill about addiction, incandescent rage, who would make it in the apocalypse, and the power of caring. Weather is full of dark gallows humor, doom poetry, and hope. Lizzie’s proclivity for playing a fake shrink to friends and strangers draws her into her friend Sylvia’s podcast, called “Hell and High Water.” As Lizzie answers increasingly panicked and intense fan emails, she confronts head on what it means to live precariously on a planet that is falling apart-all while trying to save the people we love. Protagonist Lizzie struggles to take care of her addict younger brother while keeping her family and sense of security alive in a world dying of climate change. Jenny Offill’s novel Weather (Knopf) is a broodingly intense, ecstatic storm cloud of a book.
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