Dept. of Speculation Condition:Good set off across a troubled

set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen for years

Committing to love was only the beginning

perhaps the most profound

with its powerful naval fleets

Dept. of Speculation Condition:Good set off across a troubledDept. 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