Ponderous, violent, forgetful, and deft, Death in Her Hands is a genre-bender that teases you into asking, Is this noir? Horror? A whacked-out farce? Or a sly literary trick? I’ll tell you what it is - absolutely brilliant.” She investigates between dog walks and early evening naps, but soon facts, memories, and suppositions entwine and overlap until the simple act of asking a question can unravel the thread of an entire life.
“A woman finds a note in the woods that proclaims someone is dead. “Ottessa Moshfegh is a modern-day Camus,” said Chris Lee of Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Independent booksellers across the country chose Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh (Penguin Press) as their number-one pick for the May 2020 Indie Next List, though the publication date for the book was postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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