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Jenny Offill

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Jenny Offill is an American author born in Massachusetts. Her first novel Last Things was published in 1999 was a New York Times Notable book and a finalist for the L.A Times First Book Award.

She is also the co-editor with Elissa Schappell of two anthologies of essays and the author of several children's books She teaches in the MFA programs at Brooklyn College, Columbia University and Queens University.
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Average rating: 3.7 · 93,417 ratings · 13,559 reviews · 16 distinct worksSimilar authors
Dept. of Speculation

3.76 avg rating — 50,571 ratings — published 2014 — 54 editions
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Weather

3.57 avg rating — 32,796 ratings — published 2020 — 38 editions
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Sparky!

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3.99 avg rating — 4,100 ratings — published 2014 — 12 editions
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Last Things

3.62 avg rating — 1,642 ratings — published 1999 — 24 editions
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17 Things I'm Not Allowed t...

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3.71 avg rating — 1,509 ratings — published 2004 — 9 editions
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The Friend Who Got Away: Tw...

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While You Were Napping

3.18 avg rating — 284 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions
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Money Changes Everything: T...

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Avd. för grubblerier

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“But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.”
Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation

“If I had to sum up what he did to me, I’d say it was this: he made me sing along to all the bad songs on the radio. Both when he loved me and when he didn't.”
Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation

“She thinks before she acts. Or more properly, she thinks instead of acts. A character flaw, not a virtue.”
Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation

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