![]() ![]() Each involves a protagonist in a bizarre and intense situation. Moshfegh's stories, as you may have guessed, are unsettling. ) I want Books on GIF to be a politics-free space, but I feel I have to say that this week I had a really hard time concentrating on this book and writing a review when everything was just so: (Here's a really good piece about it by Rebecca Solnit. No novel I've read in years is as dystopian and horrific as the reality we see in the United States right now. But none were as shocking and disturbing - and so mentally overwhelming - as the news cycle over the last two weeks with immigrant children being separated from their families and held in cages. For example, in one, a child plots a murder by stealing a kitchen knife and making poisonous jam in another, a man achieves his sexual awakening while digitally penetrating a prostitute's anus. The short stories in this brilliant collection are shocking and disturbing. ![]() This Sunday's book is 'Homesick For Another World' by Ottessa Moshfegh. Welcome to the latest edition of Books on GIF, the animated alternative to boring book reviews. ![]()
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