The Tiny Theater of Hurt Feelings

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She's working with this you know she can't write her second novel but she's doing this thing for money where she's sort of ghost writing a book. Then almost unbeknownst to her her relationship suddenly is falling apart because her husband's having an affair. So like there is a plot but it's pretty I guess quotidian would be the word that I would use if I were getting paid money to use vocabulary words.

When a book's plot and characters don't break a ton of ground in and of themselves, you're left hoping that the writing and the perspective will be enough to make a book interesting—luckily for us, Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation is insightful and entertaining despite its narrow scope and well-trod material.

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