Ottessa Moshfegh

Death in Her Hands

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Named One of the Best Books of the Summer by: New York Magazine, Time Magazine, Town & Country, Marie Claire, Refinery 29, PopSugar, the Today Show, and more
From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds an ominous note on a walk in the woods.

While on her daily walk with her dog in a secluded woods, a woman comes across a note, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground by stones. «Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body.» But there is no dead body. Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this. She is new to this area, alone after the death of her husband, and she knows no one.
Becoming obsessed with solving this mystery, our narrator imagines who Magda was and how…
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Quotes

  • Zaahrahas quoted10 days ago
    Was futility a subject worthy of exploration?
  • Zaahrahas quoted10 days ago
    Whoever had written the note understood that by masking one’s peculiarities, one invokes authority. There is nothing as imposing as anonymity.
  • Sasha Midlhas quotedlast year
    I always had poor circulation, low blood pressure, “a weak heart,” my husband had called it. Or perhaps I was hungry. I have to be careful, I told myself. One day I might faint in the wrong place and hit my head, or cause an accident in my car. That would be the end of me.

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