6/29/2023 0 Comments Homesick for another world review![]() Moshfegh’s characters, male and female alike, are hungry. ![]() Until her 2015 novel, “Eileen,” an unlikely, eerily seductive thriller shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Moshfegh was chiefly known for her nervy short stories, which like her eponymous novel are peopled with self-obsessed, almost comically unlikable characters and buoyed by a guffawing nihilism, a sense of humor as black as a bleeding ulcer.Īlthough “Homesick for Another World” does not advertise itself as linked stories, there are tenuous connections: addicts zombie-stagger through the streets of small towns and the recognizable landscapes of Los Angeles and New York City, as side characters or reflections of them - the bad boyfriend, the aspiring actor, the leering neighbor - flicker on the fringe of each other’s stories.īut they are obviously related by hunger. Unrepentantly ambitious female author! Unsympathetic female characters! Ghastly hygiene! ![]() ![]() That sound you hear? Packs of barking dogs, screaming sirens echoing through the hallowed halls of the literary patriarchy? That’s Ottessa Moshfegh and her debut collection of stories, “Homesick for Another World” setting off the alarm. ![]()
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