Joel G.

Wonderful: Entertaining, moving, and so timely

Revisado: 10-18-18

Cai Emmons' Weather Woman is one of the most engaging and enjoyable novels I've listened to in quite a while, and one of the most unusual. It transcends traditional genres. The title character, Bronwyn Artair, is a scientist turned TV personality turned superhero: A meteorologist and TV weather woman who learns she can control the weather. Reading the plot description, you might understandably expect to find a clever tale of fantasy or science fiction.

But start listening to the book - narrated with spot-on delivery by Dara Rosenberg - and you soon see that it is so much more than that (and I say that as a science fiction fan). The main characters - Bronwyn, her love interest Matt, and her mentor Diane - are fully realized, conflicted, and sympathetic human beings, while even the smallest characters sparkle vividly as they come and go through the pages. Bronwyn's ambivalence about her supernatural gift, and her struggles to integrate it with her sense of self, her relationships, and her role in society, are very real. And her superpower itself is described with both scientific precision and lyricism. The author brilliantly makes Bronwyn's power both a believable natural phenomenon and a metaphor for our desires to control the earth's forces in this time of terrifying climate change.

Cai Emmons has written a funny, compelling, and profoundly moving book. She unflinchingly confronts the flaws in human character and relationships, in science, in society, and in our fraught relationship with the earth, yet writes about it all with a great generosity of spirit and ultimate sense of hope. The ending gave me chills and brought tears to my eyes. Listen and see for yourself.

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