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Dept. of Speculation
by Jenny Offill
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Dept of Speculation is a book about a woman who is writing about her feelings about marriage motherhood and living through and experiencing the fallout of her husbands infeldelity. She always refers to herself as the wife or any other person in the novel with some title and not really their names or anything personal which might have been a reflection on her disconnection of her feelings and thoughts about her life through these moments.
What you will learn and get out of this is a woman who has to put her own desires and wants aside and sacrifice the things that she wants, in this case becoming an "art monster" as some of the characters describe it and putting that focus into marriage. This can be honestly very relatable to the majority of women who end up reading this.
The book isn't a narrative piece or a story with some grand plot but more of little shots into her life with quotes and poems that resonate with the feelings that this wife is going through during the duration of this book. It is a very interesting piece and almost every line in all honestly is quotable in some regard, the author wanted to focus on the style over the substance in this book and I think in that way she did an amazing job.
What you will learn and get out of this is a woman who has to put her own desires and wants aside and sacrifice the things that she wants, in this case becoming an "art monster" as some of the characters describe it and putting that focus into marriage. This can be honestly very relatable to the majority of women who end up reading this.
The book isn't a narrative piece or a story with some grand plot but more of little shots into her life with quotes and poems that resonate with the feelings that this wife is going through during the duration of this book. It is a very interesting piece and almost every line in all honestly is quotable in some regard, the author wanted to focus on the style over the substance in this book and I think in that way she did an amazing job.