The Importance of Being a Parent

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It captures a specific kind of drifting very well I think in the space of that one little paragraph. Like some people have kids and they are not on board to also like really dive into that with other people like it's just a separate part of their life. And when she did a tiny space with clear in my head and I could think again so I began to go there with her every day wandering up and down the narrow isles while the terrible drugstore music played. "I wore moth eaten dresses and fancy myself an existentialist the days were long then too"

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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