Everything you need to understand or teach Dept of Speculation by Jenny Offill.
Dept. of Speculation begins with an unnamed female protagonist questioning the nature of relationships. She thinks about some of the people that she’s met, and how she used to focus on her work. In the beginning she was a writer and a fact checker, first working for a scientific magazine. She thought if she focused solely on her career she wouldn’t feel lonely in life, but that wasn’t...