Ottessa Moshfegh

Death in Her Hands

Widow reading disturbing mystery novel finds it resembles her own life

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Ottessa Moshfegh
Ottessa Moshfegh

American novelist whose My Year of Rest and Relaxation became a cultural phenomenon, its narcotized narrator resonating with a generation. Her fiction is deliberately abrasive and confrontational. She is one of the most discussed literary novelists of her generation.

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