Geronimus, A. (2023) Weathering. The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society. Little Brown

This complicated book is a provocative contribution to the field of social justice-focused public health.It intends to counter the pernicious narratives about lack of individual responsibility and a supposed collective pathology in minoritized communities that have dominated our public discourse and public policy, usually to the detriment of those communities.Geronimus is a public health faculty member and researcher at the University of Michigan.Her primary area of focus for some 30 years has been the health issues faced by racialized constituencies, especially African Americans, and developing research-based counternarratives to those that pathologize their communities and thereby blame them for their health challenges.