They are gloriously puerile details - and that’s part of the fun. “His heart fluttered again as he remembered how her thighs had swayed when she rose to wipe herself,” says the narrator of “An Honest Woman.”īut these blemishes and base functions of the body always serve more than one purpose in the prose. Sticking a finger in another character’s butt sticking a finger in another character’s mouth picking crumbs from the folds of a crotch. Lest ye forget, kids, one slip at feeding time and they’ll eat you alive in there.Ī lot has been made of the scatology of these stories - again and again we return to moments where a character imagines or actually handles bodily fluids, orifices, and excrement. In fact, reading these 14 stories is something like a tour through an aquarium led by a deliciously mischievous guide, the kind of storyteller who delights in the salacious details of past mishaps. THE CHARACTERS IN Ottessa Moshfegh’s remarkable debut story collection, Homesick for Another World, circle one another like captive sharks in a pool.
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