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The author of the �graceful and compassionate� (People) New York Times bestseller Carry the One presents a new and long-awaited novel exploring what happens when untested people are put to a hard test, and in its aftermath, find themselves in a newly uncertain world. It�s the fall of 2016. Cate, a set designer in her early forties, lives and works in Chicago�s theater community. She has stayed too long at the fair and 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, as does everyone else in her life, and overnight, their world has changed. Anshaw�s flawed, sympathetic, and uncannily familiar characters 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. Eloquent, moving, and beautifully observed, Right after the Weather is the work of a master of exquisite prose and a wry and compassionate student of the human condition writing at the height of her considerable powers.