 First edition | |
| Author | Ottessa Moshfegh |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Publication date | January 17, 2017 |
| Media type | Print (Penguin Press) |
| Pages | 304 |
| ISBN | 978-0-399-56288-4 |
Homesick for Another World is a collection of fourteen short stories by American author Ottessa Moshfegh. [1] The book was published in 2017 by Penguin Press.
| Story | Originally published in |
|---|---|
| "Bettering Myself" | The Paris Review |
| "Mr. Wu" | The Paris Review |
| "Malibu" | Vice |
| "The Weirdos" | The Paris Review |
| "A Dark and Winding Road" | The Paris Review |
| "No Place for Good People" | The Paris Review |
| "Slumming" | The Paris Review |
| "An Honest Woman" | The New Yorker |
| "The Beach Boy" | The New Yorker |
| "Nothing Ever Happens Here" | Granta |
| "Dancing in the Moonlight" | The Paris Review |
| "The Surrogate" | Vice |
| "The Locked Room" | The Baffler |
| "A Better Place" | Original |
The review aggregator website Book Marks reported that 41% of critics gave the book a "rave" review, whilst the other 59% of the critics expressed "positive" impressions, based on a sample of 22 reviews. [2]
Writing in The New York Times , novelist David Means wrote, "Moshfegh quickly established herself as an important new voice in the literary world, and her concerns for those isolated not only in the margins of society but within the physical confines of the body itself mirrored the work of brilliant predecessors like Mary Gaitskill, Christine Schutt and, in some ways, Eileen Myles." [3]
Christian Lorentzen, reviewing the collection in Vulture , wrote, "The stories in Homesick for Another World are mostly marvels, but none of them are marvels of plot. Voice, mood, atmosphere, and the piercing detail are the native elements of her arsenal." [4]
Author and Tin House co-founder Elissa Schappell, writing in The Los Angeles Times , compared Moshfegh's style to Flannery O'Connor. [5]
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