![]() ![]() ![]() of Speculation-one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year-a “darkly funny and urgent” (NPR) tour de force about a family, and a nation, in crisis. Funny, wise, and truly awe-inspiring, Offill strips everything away here to the necessary core that we all share.įrom the beloved author of the nationwide best seller Dept. Within and despite the ever-looming apocalypse, Lizzie Benson, librarian and podcaster, gets through her day while managing pressures closing in from all sides. the funniness of many of her sentences indicates how precisely she calibrates them."Ĭlimate change figures in this ingenious and brisk novel in the way it seems it should in all art from now on-it’s our abiding reality. "Another perfectly wonderful trip inside the mind of Jenny Offill. The right novel for the end of the world." ![]() “Tiny in size but immense in scope, radically disorienting yet reassuringly humane, strikingly eccentric and completely irresistible…utterly exhilarating in its wit and intelligence…luminous.” “Offill’s fragmentary structure evokes an unbearable emotional intensity: something at the core of the story that cannot be narrated directly, by straight chronology, because to do so would be like looking at the sun…” - The New York Times ![]()
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