![]() ![]() The stories circle repeated, nuanced themes such as love-as-obsession, contentment-in-depression, and the-freedom-of-loss, but there’s something else-a unique offness-about this world that pulls these fourteen stories together into a truly incredible book.īorn in New England to Croatian and Iranian parents, Moshfegh is young and intimidatingly successful. So yes, her fictional world is one that looks, sounds, smells, and generally seems so much like our own, but I challenge you to put your finger on what exactly it is that makes Moshfegh’s realism the perfect degree of different. If the things in this book have in fact happened to anyone, I doubt they’re talking about it, which is seemingly why Ottessa Moshfegh feels the need write these fourteen stories. Everything that happens in this book is possible. ![]() ![]() To be clear, the collection is not a work of speculative fiction, nor is it sci-fi, fantasy, or even magical realism. The final story in Ottessa Moshfegh’s third book of fiction starts with the sentence, “I come from another place.” If Homesick for Another World contained an opening epigraph, this might be an apt one. ![]()
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