Homesick for Another World: Stories by Ottessa Moshfegh is a surprisingly interesting and engaging collection of stories. Moshfegh has an odd sense of the world, the timing of life’s events, and this is reflected in the stories.
There is a continuous off-kilter sense of sexuality (characters are fascinated at putting fingers in people’s mouths), work, play, intellect and maturity. Her character’s struggle with the sense that they should have more and be better. Yet they lack the tools to surmount their strange realities.
Except for the last two stories, written in a different, nearly fantasy style (and less successful) this odd and perverse collection is well worth reading. The author works with a unifying themes, and delightfully exploits them.
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