Homesick for Another World

Homesick for Another World

2017 • 294 pages

Ratings28

Average rating3.7

15

Features stories, in which the flesh is weak; the timber is crooked; people are cruel to each other, and stupid, and hurtful, but beauty comes from strange sources. In this book, the author shows us uncomfortable things, and makes us look at them forensically - until we find, suddenly, that we are really looking at ourselves.

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Moshfegh is the perfect person to write a short story collection because she's so skilled at creating cruel characters that I don't want to spend more than 40 pages with

November 20, 2023

Not my fav Moshfegh.

July 10, 2023

Capably written single-formula stories that are casually fatphobic, ableist, dismissive of the other while centring another ‘other'.

April 9, 2018