Right After the Weather
Carol Anshaw
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
The author of the "graceful and compassionate" (People) New York Times bestseller Carry the One and "one of the best storytellers we have" (Amy Bloom, author of White Houses) presents a vividly affecting novel exploring what happens when one chance encounter forces four ordinary people to discover who they really are. It's the fall of 2016. Cate, a set designer in her early forties, lives and works in Chicago's theater community. She knows it's 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 she's haunted by an old, going-nowhere affair. Her ex-husband, recently booted from his most recent marriage, is currently camped out in Cate's spare bedroom, in thrall to online conspiracy theories, and she's not sure how to help him. Her best friend Neale, a yoga instructor, lives nearby with her son and is Cate's model for what serious adulthood looks like. Only a few blocks away, but in a parallel universe we find Nathan and Irene--casual sociopaths, drug addicts, and small-time criminals. Their world and Cate's intersect the day she comes into Neale's kitchen to find these strangers assaulting her friend. Forced to take fast, spontaneous action, Cate does something she's never even considered. She now also knows the violence she is capable of, isolating her from everyone else in her life, and overnight, their world has changed. Together, they all 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. "With sharply drawn characters, an ensnaring plot, and a look back at closeted gay lives, Anshaw, acutely attuned to the shifting weather of emotions and relationships, insightfully dramatizes the insistence of desire over convention and expediency and the endless reverberations of violence" (Booklist, starred review).
Product Details
Price
$17.00
$15.81
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Publish Date
August 04, 2020
Pages
288
Dimensions
5.2 X 8.2 X 0.8 inches | 0.55 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781476747804
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About the Author
Carol Anshaw is the author of Right After the Weather, Carry the One, Aquamarine, Seven Moves, and Lucky in the Corner. She has received the Ferro-Grumley Award, the Carl Sandburg Award, and a National Book Critics Circle Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. She lives in Chicago and Amsterdam.
Reviews
"Anshaw crafts an engaging narrative with her customary precision and tart humor. Another treat from the great Anshaw: sharply observed, unsentimentally compassionate, always cognizant of life's complexities."--Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will "Kirkus Reviews, starred review"
"The Carry the One author is adept at finding compassion in dire circumstances, a skill she brandishes with brilliance in Right After the Weather."--Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will "O, the Oprah Magazine"
"With sharply drawn characters, an ensnaring plot, and a look back at closeted gay lives, Anshaw, acutely attuned to the shifting weather of emotions and relationships, insightfully dramatizes the insistence of desire over convention and expediency and the endless reverberations of violence."--Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will "Booklist, starred review"
"Carol Anshaw is one of the best storytellers we have. She sees all the outside and all the inside--of this difficult time we live in, of these complicated, puzzling, heart-stopping lives we lead. No one can put down an Anshaw novel and we are lucky, especially now, to have this one arrive."--Amy Bloom, author of White Houses
"Right after the Weather is about the terrifying discoveries we make--about ourselves, about the world--when the membrane separating civilization from barbarity is torn. Carol Anshaw has a genius for rendering life on the page, for characters and situations as ferociously complicated as reality. She is a master."--Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You
"I love the way Carol Anshaw looks at the world, her eye for people and the strangeness of the everyday. Right After the Weather is a beautiful study in light and dark contrasts, the lives of the blessed and the lives of the bleak, in the vein of Paula Fox's Desperate Characters." --Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will
"Anshaw brings a fresh, keen voice to this story of modern lesbian life...[it] will captivate readers."--Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will "Publishers Weekly"
"The Carry the One author is adept at finding compassion in dire circumstances, a skill she brandishes with brilliance in Right After the Weather."--Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will "O, the Oprah Magazine"
"With sharply drawn characters, an ensnaring plot, and a look back at closeted gay lives, Anshaw, acutely attuned to the shifting weather of emotions and relationships, insightfully dramatizes the insistence of desire over convention and expediency and the endless reverberations of violence."--Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will "Booklist, starred review"
"Carol Anshaw is one of the best storytellers we have. She sees all the outside and all the inside--of this difficult time we live in, of these complicated, puzzling, heart-stopping lives we lead. No one can put down an Anshaw novel and we are lucky, especially now, to have this one arrive."--Amy Bloom, author of White Houses
"Right after the Weather is about the terrifying discoveries we make--about ourselves, about the world--when the membrane separating civilization from barbarity is torn. Carol Anshaw has a genius for rendering life on the page, for characters and situations as ferociously complicated as reality. She is a master."--Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You
"I love the way Carol Anshaw looks at the world, her eye for people and the strangeness of the everyday. Right After the Weather is a beautiful study in light and dark contrasts, the lives of the blessed and the lives of the bleak, in the vein of Paula Fox's Desperate Characters." --Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will
"Anshaw brings a fresh, keen voice to this story of modern lesbian life...[it] will captivate readers."--Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will "Publishers Weekly"
