homesick for another world by ottessa moshfegh

Wu finally achieves his goal, he finds he has run out of things to say. He satisfies his mute lust with prostitutes, plotting and planning for the night when he can finally lure the object of his true affections into a dark alleyway by means of enigmatic text messages. Wu,' a nobody nursing a secret passion for a woman who runs a video arcade. When his brother's girlfriend shows up by mistake for an assignation in a tiny, lonely cabin in the wilderness, Charles could tell her anything, but what he actually does saythat he is the gay boyfriend of her absent loveris just too outrageous to be anything but hilarious.Īnd imagine the frustrations of 'Mr. One striking example of Moshfegh's bizarre but piquant humor comes out swinging when Charles, the 'good' sibling in 'A Dark and Winding Road' decides on the spur of the moment to turn bad, very bad indeed. I ate a salad for the first time in years,'we allow ourselves to feel momentary hope for a happy outcome, even though we correctly suspect that her salad is going to be chased with Scotch. When she describes her method for 'Bettering Myself''I got my nails polished. In Moshfegh's broken looking-glass universe, the narrator of 'Bettering Myself,' who probably really could have taught kids once, has long since given up on the idea instead this school teacher talks to her students about sex and cheats for them on their state exams. Yet each offers what this new writer's growing readership has come to expect: sudden splashes of outré humor in the midst of squalid, fetid realities. The book comprises fourteen tales, generally dark, each unique in its expression of mute angst sexual longings, fulfilled or repressed human contacts tentatively made and frustratingly frayed. The frizzy, freaky, funky, and frazzled all pile on in this much anticipated short story collection by award-winning author Ottessa Moshfegh. An eerily unsettling yet delightful set of short stories from an author who is just get started on her stellar literary career.

Homesick for another world by ottessa moshfegh