SIMONE WEIL FOR AMERICANS 

I recommend Christy Wapole’s review in the Los Angeles Review of Books as a wonderful entry point to see if this book and Weil’s work at large speaks to you. The book is not quite a biography; Zaretsky shifts the discussion away from untangling questions about Weil’s identity and instead concentrates on the major themes in her work: affliction, attention, resistance, rootedness, and goodness.