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Ottessa Moshfegh, author of Homesick for Another World: Stories

There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful and even laugh-out-loud funny. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet in one way or another; they all yearn for connection and betterment, though each in very different ways, but they are often tripped up by their own baser impulses and existential insecurities. HOMESICK FOR ANOTHER WORLD is a master class in the varieties of self-deception across the gamut of individuals representing the human condition.

Week of December 4, 2017

Paperback releases for the week of December 4th include THE BLOOD OF EMMETT TILL, Timothy B. Tyson's reexamination of a pivotal event of the civil rights movement --- the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till; DUST BOWL GIRLS by Lydia Reeder, the true story of a Depression-era championship women’s team that the publisher describes as "THE BOYS IN THE BOAT meets A League of Their Own"; DEATH'S MISTRESS, which launches Terry Goodkind's entirely new series, The Nicci Chronicles, featuring a cast of characters centered on one of his best-loved characters in the now-concluded Sword of Truth; and CURTAIN OF DEATH, book three in W.E.B. Griffin's Clandestine Operations series about the Cold War, the fledgling Central Intelligence Agency --- and a new breed of warrior.