Dept. Of Speculation is 46 pithy chapters that take up only 180 pages, composed entirely of short, aphoristic paragraphs and quotes that vaguely tell the story of a woman’s journey through adulthood.  The characters are nameless: the wife, the husband, the daughter.  The narrator, the Wife, starts as an aspiring Art Monster, and changes as she falls in love, gets married, has a daughter.  The wife waxes poetic (or, aphoristic) about life’s catastrophes, from having a colicky baby, to a cheating husband, to a battle with bedbugs, […]