![]() ![]() “Three things no one has ever said about me: She second guesses virtually every decision she makes, and cannot seem to let go of some precipitous sense of doom. She is riddled with anxieties of all different kinds: anxiety in her marital relationship, anxiety about her mothering style and her inability to please her colicky baby, and anxiety about her creative output and career. The narrator is a writer turned writing teacher, who cannot seem to get a handle on completing her second novel after the birth of her daughter. Department of Speculation explores the inner workings of a once strong but soon troubled marital relationship, fractured by the husband’s infidelity, and the indestructible bond between mother and daughter, even during the most challenging of circumstances. After a painful miscarriage, she has a daughter, and their family becomes a unit. ![]() Composed of terse paragraphs and eccentric observations woven together to form a coherent narrative, this novel follows a writer/teacher who falls in love and get married in her twenties. Jenny Offill’s second novel, Department of Speculation, reads more like a diary than a novel. ![]()
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