The strong, clear voice of Ottessa Moshfegh
by Clare McHugh
Jul 23, 2018
2 minutes
AN UNNAMED YOUNG woman—blond, beautiful, a graduate of Columbia University—hates everything and everyone in shiny, brittle Manhattan, circa 2000. So she decides to hibernate in her Upper East Side apartment for six months. Maybe, she thinks, if she sleeps all that time—with the help of an enabling psychiatrist and the medications she prescribes—she will
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