Ottessa Moshfegh 'Homesick for Another World' Earns Praises From Time, Publisher's Weekly

Ottessa Moshfegh publishes her first collection of short stories revealing almost dangerous stories that are laugh-out-loud funny as well. Her collection moves from the West Coast to East Coast and puts her characters in states of dynamic paralysis, trapped between the pains of the past and the dreams of the future. Her work was also revealed as a masterclass in the varieties of self-deception with her characters representing the present human condition.

The "Retro 4: Selections from Joyland Magazine" writer now takes readers into the lives of individuals with bad childhoods, bad marriages or bad relationships. Her latest work is said to be focused around the complicated relationship between the entrapment in a physical body and the entrapment in social landscapes.

It is interesting to note that Time has praised the "Homesick for Another World" writer for her mastery with tales that center on a range of creeps and weirdos in despair. It has also been noted while its readers may not seek to spend time with this cast of boors in real life, their company is irresistible in the stories, Penguin Random House revealed.

The New York Times also noted that Moshfegh utilizes ugliness in a way that it becomes like an intellectual and moral Swiss Army knife. Moshfegh was also likened to the English writer Angela Carter in the way her stories veer close to myth.

Meanwhile, the "Eileen" author also entices her audience with the sounds of packs of barking dogs and screaming sirens echoing through the hallowed halls of the literary patriarchy. Moreover, Moshfegh has been dubbed as an unrepentantly ambitious female author that brings in unsympathetic female characters with ghastly hygiene, LA Times reported. While "Homesick for Another World" is not advertised as linked stories, tenuous connections have been noted.

Moshfegh also reveals the hunger in her characters both male and female. Apparently, her book talks about the hunger to get famous, hunger for respect and adulation, or the actual hunger to have Big Macs and liquor. There is also a hunger for happiness as Moshfegh's world is said to be the absence of misery. Listen to the author below as she talks about her latest collection:

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