โ Scribed by Ottessa Moshfegh
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**An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time
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Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015. Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year by The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle , nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. But as many critics noted, Moshfegh is particularly held in awe for her short stories. Homesick for Another World is the rare case where an author's short story collection is if anything more anticipated than her novel.
And for good reason. 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...
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**An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time** Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel *Eileen* was one of the literary events of 2015. Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year by *The Washington Post* and the *San Francisco Chron
Dark, irreverent, and truly innovative, the speculative stories in *Homesick* meditate on the theme of home and our estrangement from it, and what happens when the familiar suddenly shifts into the uncanny. In stories that foreground queer relationships and transgender or nonbinary characters, Cipri
Dark, irreverent, and truly innovative, the speculative stories in *Homesick* meditate on the theme of home and our estrangement from it, and what happens when the familiar suddenly shifts into the uncanny. In stories that foreground queer relationships and transgender or nonbinary characters, Cipri
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