![]() ![]() Emotionally torn between her chemist father and oracular mother, the protagonist navigates her way through a crumbling family to discover the beauties hidden at the intersection of education and faith. ![]() Offill’s first novel, Last Things (FSG, 1999), which plots science against panache in an enchanting battle for our sympathies, was a finalist for the L.A. of Speculation could depart from bestsellers lists, Offill published two children’s books, While You Were Napping (Schwartz & Wade), and Sparky! (Schwartz & Wade). (Now included by numerous professors on their graduate syllabi, dog-eared and furiously highlighted copies have been changing hands with uncommon frequency here at New York University.) But Offill wasn’t nearly done. ![]() A fragmentary meditation on infidelity, empty spaces, and cosmonautic history, the book was shortlisted as a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was named among the 10 Best Books of 2014 by the New York Times. of Speculation (Knopf Doubleday) that tracks not just the casualties of a family veering toward potential collapse, but also what can be salvaged. She published an elegant and haunting novel, Dept. Michael Sarinsky An Interview with Jenny Offill ![]()
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