Bureau of Rumors

«Bureau of Rumors» — a comprehensive portrait of one family, but at the same time — it is an intriguing reflection on the mysteries of intimacy and trust and the state of universal shipwreck that unites us all.
The heroine of... the novel falls in love, gets married, gives birth to a daughter, teaches literary craft, fights with bedbugs in her apartment, practices yoga, tries to realize that her husband has a mistress, but that is external. In fact, the primary feeling is that everything in the world is connected: our everyday life, full of trifles, and the words of Keats, Kafka, Rilke; love letters with the stamp of «Bureau of Rumors» and the desperate experiences of Russian cosmonauts; tender maternal love and household tips from 1896.
Jenny Offill writes with cold-blooded precision, in a language that shimmers with fury, wit, and frantic longing. She has managed to create an exquisitely captivating story about the impermanence of things and their elusive beauty.