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Book Summary. Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all. Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply "the wife," once exchanged love letters with her husband postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of a long relationship. “Dept. of Speculation” was their code name for all the thrilling uncertainties that lay ahead. Then they got married, had a child and navigated the familiar calamities of family life—a colicky baby, a faltering relationship, stalled ambitions. Dept. of Speculation is a novel by American author Jenny Offill. It charts the marriage of an unnamed protagonist—sometimes “I” and sometimes “the wife”—and her husband, from their courtship, marriage, and the arrival of their first child, through the husband’s affair and its uneasy resolution. The novel opens with an unnamed narrator thinking about relationships.
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