![]() ![]() To highlight that point, most of the people in the narrator's life are offbeat or provisional figures: Reva, her well-meaning but shallow former classmate Trevor, a boyfriend who only pursues her when he’s on the rebound and Dr. Instead, she means to explore whether there are paths to living that don’t involve traditional (and wearying) habits of consumption, production, and relationships. (She quits her job at an art gallery in obnoxious, scatological fashion.) But Moshfegh isn’t interested in grief or mental illness per se. (Her parents are both dead, and they’re much on her mind.) And if she’s not mentally ill, she’s certainly severely maladjusted socially. ![]() Moshfegh’s prickly fourth book ( Homesick for Another World, 2017, etc.) is narrated by an unnamed woman who’s decided to spend a year “hibernating.” She has a few conventional grief issues. A young New York woman figures there’s nothing wrong with existence that a fistful of prescriptions and months of napping wouldn’t fix. ![]()
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