![]() ![]() Both books generate their energy from dread, but, where “Dept. The couple does stay together, a happy-enough ending that seems fairly incredible in light of Offill’s new novel, “ Weather,” which contains no suggestion that the future’s uncertainty could be a good or exciting thing-the birds are running out of places to go. ![]() of Speculation-“She is after all, speculating”-proposing that they leave New York, move to the country, and, implicitly, save their marriage. Whether the couple will stay together is a distressingly live question when the protagonist decides to send her husband another letter from the Dept. Years later, they both still have the letters, but the husband has begun sleeping with a young woman from his office, and the joke that once implied young love’s cautious optimism has acquired a darker cast. “The return address was always the same: Dept. “They used to send each other letters,” Offill writes. of Speculation,” from 2014, refers to an old joke between the book’s unnamed protagonist and her husband. The title of Jenny Offill’s celebrated novel “ Dept. ![]()
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