An unusual narrative style in a completely accessible novel by Jenny Offil

Jenny Offil's short novel Dept. of Speculation (2014, I think) could probably be called an experimental novel but that would miss the whole point: Her narrative style is unusual, possibly unique, but the novel is quite accessible, conventional and appealing in its design, funny at times, sorrowful as well. In essence it's a chronicle of I think about 7 years in the narrator's life, a span that begins with a NY dating scene, leads to a serious relationship, marriage, motherhood - and the novel examines all the diurnal crises of each of these life stages, as the narrator, through wit and perseverance, gets by. I'm sensing that things don't work out well for her marriage (I'm about half-way through) but overall not sure where the narrative will lead us, which is as it should be. What makes Offil's style so unusual is that the entire work is made up of short snaps, much like brief entries in a journal, arranged chronologically; we don't get background or back story, we don't get direct access to the consciousness of any but the narrator (who is an obvious stand-in for the author, a young NY writer with 1 novel published and now wondering what's happened to her career), but each of these snaps is sharp and revealing and taken together they create of full narration - like a novel pared back to its essence. The entries remind me of some of Lydia Davis's best stories, but in a way they're better because they build upon one another. Quoting or rather paraphrasing from memory, here's an example, to give you a sense of the dry wit and the pathos: "We went to look at the new apartment building. 11 floors. I said to my daughter that we'd have to use the stairs in a fire. She asked: What about a flood. There won't be a flood I said. Telling the truth. For once." See how this places her parenthood on the line, how it subtly suggests an uneasiness in both mother and daughter, how the mother turns a moment of reassurance into a cloud of doubt hanging over her relationship with her curious child? There are many more such fine moments, moments all readers can recognize, regardless of whether their lives and careers are anything like Offil's.