Dept. of Speculation

(To start: There's something disconcerting about reading a grownup book by an author you considered a children's picture book author. Where, for example, are the pictures? And she knows (and uses) those words? Who knew?)

Once I got past that, I settled in nicely to this small novel. Our main character, known only as “the wife,” is deep into her marriage and everything has changed and she really wants to understand why.

I love the way Offill roams all over the place in her writing, almost like little poems, or moments, that link inexplicably in the way our real lives flow and link. More, more, more.