Monday, March 28, 2022

Dept. Of Speculation

 

By Jenny Offill


The story of a woman's search for love, getting married, having kids, getting tossed aside for someone younger but hanging on to her man in the end, probably.


It's told oddly. No names mentioned, not even her name. It's told in snippets with lots of blank spaces between the snippets. The copy I read had 177 pages but it has so many blank spaces I read it in less than two hours. The style really put me off at first and I started the book then stopped and left it sitting for several weeks. I did finally get around to it but I still didn't care for its anonymous style. It was an OK read, other than the annoying style, pretty much a typical depiction of a marriage. 


Here is a review by NPR.


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