Her prose is unrestrained and lively, which makes her characters all the easier to invest in. Likewise, Moshfegh doesn’t seem to hold anything back in her writing. Her characters are simultaneously funny, endearing, despicable, and pitiable because they’re not holding anything back. In Homesick for Another World, Ottessa Moshfegh’s stories distinctly function as one entity because each piece presents a character at his or her most honest. For some writers, a central idea or geography gives a group of stories a sense of unity. The different routes authors take to thread together a cohesive collection of short stories are endlessly fascinating.
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