Jenny Offill: Dept of Speculation

Dept. of Speculation

Jenny Offill

Knopf; First Edition

Jenny Offill has created a small, perfectly formed novel here - it’s also an experimental text, playful, deceptive, intriguing.

We read Dept. of Speculation – a novel, told essentially (and effectively) in connected prose poems – as if we are eavesdropping on post-it notes that hint at traces of a marri…