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Ottessa Moshfegh


Born
in Boston, The United States
May 20, 1981

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Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Death in Her Hands, her second and third novels, were New York Times bestsellers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World and a novella, McGlue. She lives in Southern California.

Average rating: 3.58 · 788,103 ratings · 124,848 reviews · 40 distinct worksSimilar authors
My Year of Rest and Relaxation

3.62 avg rating — 484,616 ratings — published 2018 — 12 editions
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Eileen

3.57 avg rating — 115,940 ratings — published 2015 — 78 editions
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Lapvona

3.54 avg rating — 81,676 ratings — published 2022 — 14 editions
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Death in Her Hands

3.24 avg rating — 48,352 ratings — published 2020 — 50 editions
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Homesick for Another World

3.61 avg rating — 37,769 ratings — published 2017 — 10 editions
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McGlue

3.32 avg rating — 14,107 ratings — published 2014 — 17 editions
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Bettering Myself

3.98 avg rating — 584 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions
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The Weirdos

3.95 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions
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The Beach Boy

3.61 avg rating — 148 ratings
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Disgust

3.91 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 2012
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“Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion”
Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“I did crave attention, but I refused to humiliate myself by asking for it.”
Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Oh, sleep. Nothing else could ever bring me such pleasure, such freedom, the power to feel and move and think and imagine, safe from the miseries of my waking consciousness.”
Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

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