There are a million stories of rugged men who take to the wilderness and there descend into madness. In Our Endless Numbered Days the survivalist male obsessive chooses to take his eight-year-old daughter with him.
The Loney uses the mainstays of gothic horror – a wild, ancient landscape, a face at the window, a crumbling house filled with mysteries – to speak about our search for meaning in an incoherent world.
In the final accounting a novel is only a series of stated facts that aren't true. In Dept. of Speculation, Jenny Offill takes this truth to its formal extreme.