Death in Her Hands
Ottessa Moshfegh
Literary Fiction / Horror
Death in Her Hands
by Ottessa Moshfegh
· 272 p· 2020
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Overview
About
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by: The Washington Post, Vogue, Marie Claire, Entertainment Weekly, The Millions, New York Magazine, Paste Magazine, LitHub, 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 an…
Pages
272
Alfaguara
Linguistic complexity
4/5
Complex
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Reader feel
Psychological Unreliability10
Prose9
Narration9
Atmospheric Unease9
Emotional depth8
Pacing7
Plot twists6
Worldbuilding2
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