Her brooding about the note grows quickly into a full-blown obsession: who was Magda and how did she meet her fate?įrom the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen comes this razor-sharp, chilling and darkly hilarious novel about the stories we tell ourselves and how we strive to obscure the truth. Shaky even on her best days, Vesta is also alone, and new to the area, having moved here after the death of her husband. It feels appropriate that the book prompting me to these reflections is Death in Her Hands, a new novel by Ottessa Moshfegh, whose fiction consistently conjures a world of such profound. While on her daily walk with her dog in the woods near her home, Vesta comes across a chilling handwritten note. Crticas Named a Best Book of 2020 by Elle, Bustle, and the New York Public Library A recent profile of Moshfegh in this newspaper suggested that her. 'This is a story about what might happen when a woman takes charge.
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