Dept. of Speculation Condition:Well Read and a tormented sheep man

and a tormented sheep man plotting their escape from a nightmarish library

A tour of what remains and an insight into what once was with a liberal sprinkling of folklore

but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness

and Offred and other Handmaids are only valued if their ovaries are viable

Dept. of Speculation Condition:Well Read and a tormented sheep manDept. 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