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Saturday, July 4, 2015

=Book recently read: Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill=


(in 100 words or less)
Echoes of David Markson who everyone seems to have forgotten when praising how stylistically original and unprecedented this novel is. A fractured life told in fragments and factoids, bite-sized narrative nuggets many no more than a few sentences in length. No sustained attention required. The story: a woman dissatisfied with her life, marriage, and motherhood reflects on the why of this dissatisfaction. Then the unthinkable happens: her husband has an affair. Now the fragments begin to come unglued—and so does her sanity. Can she piece her life back together? The accumulation of details reaches a dangerous tipping point. Powerful.


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