![]() The very large and the very small, along with philosophy and history, poetry and religion, recontextualise - for Offill’s characters and for her readers - the ordinary and not so ordinary events of domestic life. In Last Things (1999), Offill’s debut, eight-year-old Grace, homeschooled by her increasingly erratic mother, learns mainly about the formation of the universe and the insects that will remain after mammalian extinction. ![]() of Speculation(2014), Jenny Offill’s second novel, the writer-narrator is distracted from writing a second novel by motherhood and the revelation of her husband’s affair, but also by a bedbug infestation and a job ghostwriting a history of the space programme for a failed astronaut. ![]()
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