That's how she felt herself, Offill said, but the more she looked into the issue, the more she saw a need for action on her part, too. Lizzie, the US author told DW, is a bit like the rest of us - well aware of the climate crisis, but because she cares and worries about so many other things, that awareness falls by the wayside. "Young person worry: What if nothing I do matters? Old person worry: What if everything I do, does?" Sometimes she watches disaster movies, which lead her to worry even more.Ībove all, she is a gifted observer of her fellow human beings. Lizzie observes rich New Yorkers plan their move to regions that are less threatened by climate change, something she simply cannot afford. Wildfires in California in 2020 Image: The Orange County Register/AP Photo/picture-alliance 'Lizzie is just like us' She also devours words of wisdom, including about Buddhist spirituality: "A visitor once asked the old monks on Mount Athos what they did all day, and was told: We have died and we are in love with everything." But nothing can lift her spirits. She is obsessed with reading reference books and articles about climate change.
She worries about almost everything: her brother, an ex-junkie, or her dental insurance and the future in the face of the apocalypse. Lizzie, who lives in New York with her husband and son, is a university campus librarian. Like the preppers who build bunkers and stockpile supplies in remote areas to be ready for the end of the world, Lizzie is convinced that the end of the world is definitely near in times of a threatening climate disaster. One day Lizzie, the first-person narrator of the novel, receives an old book as a gift, with a dedication wishing the reader to be among the survivors.
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