The Importance of Defamiliarizing Things

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I felt incredible trepidation about writing about motherhood and marriage. I was particularly not interested in writing a book that had an affair in it because I thought we've read that a million times. She's saying a lot of like man I would never write a book about a writer who gets as a kid and gets divorced but except for this one time just this one time I'm going to say well and then it seems to have paid off for her.

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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