BPL Author Spotlight: Ottessa Moshfegh
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| Ottessa Moshfegh's debut book, "Eileen," won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in 2015. |
By Catherine Oseas|BPL Archives Department
Ottessa Moshfegh is an American author. Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1981, Moshfegh published her first novel, Eileen, in 2015.
Eileen won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and was a fiction finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Her subsequent novels have been in a similar style to her first, taking a first person narrative to an otherworldly dimension.
“Moshfegh’s characters tend to be amoral, frank, bleakly funny, very smart, and perverse in their motivations, in ways that destabilize the reader’s assumptions about what is ugly, what is desirable, what is permissible, and what is real” (The New Yorker, July 2, 2018).
If you are looking for an interesting read, I recommend starting with Moshfegh’s second novel, My Year of Rest and Relaxation. My book review for this title is forthcoming.
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