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An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time.
There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful, and even laugh-out-loud funny. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet in one way or another; they all yearn for connection and betterment, though ...more
There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful, and even laugh-out-loud funny. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet in one way or another; they all yearn for connection and betterment, though ...more
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Il n'y a pas beaucoup de réconfort à trouver dans les histoires de Moshfeg, sauf peut-être dans certaines des petitesses de ses personnages, celles qui appellent les nôtres & les remettent à leur place. Ce qu'il y a de poignant là-dedans, ce n'est pas qu'on s'y reconnaisse, mais bien que les laideurs les plus platement étranges s'entortillent autour de nos routines pour leur donner une texture qu'elles n'avaient pas avant, un relief de graines de toast encroûtées sur une table de cuisine & de ch
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Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Her first book, McGlue, a novella, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World. Her stories have been published in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and Granta, and have earned her a Pushcart Prize, an O. Henry Award, the Plimpton Discovery Pri
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