Author: Jenny Offill
Publication date: 2014
Dept. of Speculation is the latest pick from my stellar book club. We'll be discussing it at our May meeting next week but I'm getting ahead of myself and blogging while the book is still relatively fresh in my mind.
Jenny Offill's slim 177-page novel is the stream of consciousness story of a marriage told through the voice of "the wife" about "the husband" and later "the baby."
I feel about this book the way many people feel about Jackson Pollack's paintings: anyone could do it. But I'm enough of a writer/reader to know that it's not actually true.
There are endearing things about Dept. of Speculation. I feel the narrator's love for her family and her hopes as well. I appreciated what a quick read it was (less than three hours for me personally). But I think it just wasn't for me.
Perhaps my book club will pull more information out of me, in which case, I'll return to this entry and expand it.
One star
Next challenge: A book with nonhuman characters
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