Homesick for Another World
2017 • 294 pages
Ratings17
Average rating3.7
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Ratings17
Average rating3.7
Features stories, in which the flesh is weak; the timber is crooked; people are cruel to each other, and stupid, and hurtful, but beauty comes from strange sources. In this book, the author shows us uncomfortable things, and makes us look at them forensically - until we find, suddenly, that we are really looking at ourselves.
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Moshfegh is the perfect person to write a short story collection because she's so skilled at creating cruel characters that I don't want to spend more than 40 pages with
Capably written single-formula stories that are casually fatphobic, ableist, dismissive of the other while centring another ‘other'.
these are very good, very unsettling stories. i do not recommend reading this collection while traveling alone.
