PositiveThe Los Angeles Review of BooksThe characters in Ottessa Moshfegh’s remarkable debut story collection, Homesick for Another World, circle one another like captive sharks in a pool. 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 … It’s a kind of deep cover one enters in each new story. The world outside dissolves, and these particular worlds are governed entirely by the characters’ actions and reactions, and whatever judgments a reader might pass on the lives of these lovable miscreants are lost to the force of the story’s telling … Moshfegh commits to the point of view of her characters like few writers do, or have, or can, and in so doing insists upon their humanity in ways that surprise us on every page.
