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Name: Homesick for Another World
Rating: 4.8 (4 reviews)
Author: Ottessa Moshfegh
ISBN: 9780399562884

Homesick for Another World

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by Ottessa Moshfegh

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First Published:
Jan 17, 2017, 304 pages

Paperback:
Dec 2017, 304 pages

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- Short Stories
- USA
- Contemporary
- Dealing with Loss
- Physical & Mental Differences
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"I'll miss you, Waldemar!" I whisper.

I wait for the bad man to let me in.

Excerpted from Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh. Copyright © 2017 by Ottessa Moshfegh. Excerpted by permission of Penguin Press. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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