Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh

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Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by- The Washington Post, Vogue, Marie Claire, Entertainment Weekly, The Millions, New York Magazine, Paste Magazine, Lit Hub, E! News Online, and many 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 she met her fate. With very little to go on, she invents a list of murder suspects and possible motives for the crime. Oddly, her suppositions begin to find correspondences in the real world, and with mounting excitement and dread, the fog of mystery starts to fade into menacing certainty. As her investigation widens, strange dissonances accrue, perhaps associated with the darkness in her own past, we must face the prospect that there is either an innocent explanation for all this or a much more.

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    • Format- Paperback
    • Product dimensions- 5.2" W x 7.8" H x 1" D
    • Genre- Personal growth and development
    • Publisher- HarperCollins Publishers, Publication date- 05-03-2022
    • Page count- 368
    • ISBN- 9780063055605

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3 years ago

Great Read, Has You On The Edge Of Your Seat!

I have heard a lot of reviews saying this book was bad but personally, I liked the book and was happy I took the time to sit down and read it. I will admit this book is a bit slow and takes a while to get to the main plot of the story. That's what I enjoyed about the book though it made me feel really attached to the characters and the plot. I enjoyed the point of view from the unreliable narrator because it really made me think about the plot in the book and made me even think outside of the book about society. I think this book should and deserves to be on New York Times Best Sellers list. I think this because this isn't a book you hear about every day. This book is unique and provides a different perspective than readers are used to. This makes the book interesting and makes you want to keep reading it. This book provides readers with the thought "is this really happening" and the thought of what's real and what's not. This story provides an unreliable narrator which changes our perspective of their point of view. As readers, we are supposed to follow the narrator's opinion because it's what’s being trained to think as we're reading the book. This story provides a narrator that is not so likable and can make the reader, not like our narrator. This changes the reader's interpretation of the book.

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3 years ago
from Greece, NY

A love note to Miss Moshfegh

Reading anything by Ottessa Moshfegh is always a pleasure. Her unlikable narrators are surprisingly fun to read about. In this novel, the reader follows Vesta, an elderly widow, and her dog as the two try to solve a murder. Only, Vesta might not be the most reliable narrator... Great read!!

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