The storyline isn’t at all original, but what makes Dept. Which sounds like something that has been written about a thousand times before and it has been.

It follows the wife as she meets her future husband, they get married and experience ups and downs in their marriage. of Speculation is the story of a marriage as told by ‘the wife’. It didn’t take me very long to figure out though that the book wouldn’t be what I expected as it very clearly isn’t a sci-fi book.ĭept.

I was expecting a sci-fi book, which it absolutely is not. I thought I knew what it would be about so I didn’t look it up before starting to read it. Okay, so when I started this book I was expecting something else, probably because there was a bit of time between me hearing about the book and me finally picking it. of Speculation was generally well received when it came out and ended up nominated for the Folio Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the International DUBLIN Literary Award. of Speculation Offill wrote several children’s books and worked on two anthologies, The Friend Who Got Away (2005) and Money Changes Everything (2007). Times First Book Award and was chosen as a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times. Her debut book was Last Things (1999), which was a finalist for the L.A. of Speculation (2014) is Offill’s second novel. Jenny Offill was born in 1968 in Massachusetts and attended University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I sort of forgot about the book until I ran across it again on overdrive. I probably read a description of it somewhere around the time it came out and I did consider buying it a couple times, but simply didn’t get around to it. of Speculation ended up on my ‘want to read’ list.

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