As Lizzie dives into this polarized world, she begins to wonder what it means to keep tending your own garden once you’ve seen the flames beyond its walls. She’s become famous for her prescient podcast, Hell and High Water, and wants to hire Lizzie to answer the mail she receives: from left-wingers worried about climate change and right-wingers worried about the decline of western civilization. They have both stabilized for the moment, but Lizzie has little chance to spend her new free time with husband and son before her old mentor, Sylvia Liller, makes a proposal. For years she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. of Speculation-one of the New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of the Year-a shimmering tour de force about a family, and a nation, in crisis Retrieved 30 August 2021.Friday 4/17, 7 pm **THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED.**įrom the author of the nationwide best seller Dept.
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of Speculation – the underdog persona's not going to fly any more". " 'Speculation' Shows Good Stories Come In Small Packages, Too". ^ a b Wolitzer, Meg (23 January 2014)."How Much Could Be Left Unsaid: An Interview with Jenny Offill". ^ a b "In Fragments Of A Marriage, Familiar Themes Get Experimental".Influence Ī passage in the novel influenced Rachel Yoder's novel Nightbitch. The novel was included on the New York Times' list of the best books of 2014. of Speculation was shortlisted for 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and the Folio Prize.
Offill has said she did not anticipate the book's success. In her review of the book, published by NPR, Meg Wolitzer praised the novel as " intriguing, beautifully written, sly and often profound". The novel has been compared to Renata Adler's 1976 book Speedboat. Reception Critical reception Īccording to literary review aggregator Book Marks, the book received mostly "Rave" and reviews, with some less positive reception. of Speculation eschews a typical plot, which Offill has said was deliberate. of Speculation " came from the ashes of another book". Though not purely autobiographical, the novel draws from Offill's life. The novel received positive reviews, and has been compared to Offill's later work, Weather. of Speculation is a 2014 novel by American author Jenny Offill.
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