Dept. of Speculation Financial Times Business Book of the Year Nominee for Shortlist (2005) as well as on the

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distinguished and sometimes reviled political superstar and champion of free speech

But radical new discoveries and shifting relationships mean that she must fully embrace her Divergence - even though she cannot know what might be lost in doing so

The Way Up to Heaven

Dept. of Speculation Financial Times Business Book of the Year Nominee for Shortlist (2005) as well as on theDept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all. Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply "the wife," once exchanged love letters with her husband postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of a