Homesick for Another World: Stories (Hardcover)

from msf59

“She was probably my age, but she looked like a woman with a hundred years of suffering behind her-no love, no transformations, no joy, just junk food and bad television, ugly, mean-spirited men creaking in and out of stuffy rooms to take advantage of her womb and impassive heft. One of these obe...

from amandaabend

Homesick For Another World, Ottessa Moshfegh's collection of short stories, comprises a selection of her previously published pieces, culminating in a grand anthology that exemplifies Moshfegh's work precisely. The published book helpfully gathers most of her published short stories together in o...

from Wickabod

"It was disgusting -- just as I'd always hoped it would be." Very dark. Very funny. Very good. Her novel EILEEN didn't quite work for me. I appreciated what she was trying to do, but I couldn't really connect with her narrator and her voice. But with this book, it definitely clicked. These storie...

from over.the.edge

Homesick For Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh 2017 5.0 / 5.0 Wow! Moshfegh hits the ball out of the park with this one. I think the ball is still in flight. The powerful, twisted and dark focus of the 14 stories in this collection will make you uncomfortable. They will trouble you. They will mak...

from bayleaf

In Homesick for Another World Otessa Moshfegh excels at writing about homely, unfortunate people who long for better lives, but never achieve them. It's unexpected to me, as a reader, that I didn't feel sympathy for these men and women. To paraphrase what a character in "Malibu" so succinctly say...