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Homesick For Another World
London, United Kingdom: Vintage Publishing, 2018. -. Paperback. There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous while also being delightful - and often even weirdly hilarious. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet; all yearning for connection and betterment, in very different ways, but each of..... More
Homesick for Another World : Stories
Penguin Books, 2017. Paperback. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time "I can't recall the last time I laughed this hard at a book. Simultaneously, I'm shocked and scandalized. She's brilliant..... More
McGlue
VINTAGE: Vintage Publishing, 2017. Paperback. They said I've done something wrong?... And they've just left me down here to starve. Haven't had a drop in days more so... Salem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of his name or situation or orientation -..... More
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
London, United Kingdom: Vintage Publishing, 2018. Paperback. A shocking, hilarious and strangely tender novel about a young woman's experiment in narcotic hibernation, aided and abetted by one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature. Our narrator has many of the advantages of life, on the surface. Young, thin..... More
Rabbit: A Memoir
Dey Street Books, 2018. Reprint. Paperback. Finalist for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature. Finalist for a 2018 Southern Book Prize for Biography and History. "An absolute must-read" - Shondaland. "[Rabbit] tells how it went down with brutal honesty and outrageous humor" - New York Times. "I know a...... More