Homesick for Another World
Ottessa Moshfegh · 2017
Misfits, addicts, loners. Moshfegh is merciless and somehow still compassionate.
The case against
Every story contains an unwashed body, a bad apartment, and a narrator marinating in self-disgust; by the seventh you can set your watch by the gross-out. Moshfegh's misanthropy is a precision instrument that this collection uses for every job, and the endings tend to flatline rather than close. Read three. All fourteen straight is the whole jar of pickles.
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