Homesick for Another World Lewis Hyde Alina Starkov is a soldier

Alina Starkov is a soldier who knows she may not survive her first trek across the Shadow Fold--a swath of unnatural darkness crawling with monsters

Compelling

In her mesmerizing fourth work of fiction

Eliza Doolittle

Homesick for Another World Lewis Hyde Alina Starkov is a soldierAnd for good reason. There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful, and even laugh out loud funny. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet in one way or another; they all yearn for connection and betterment, though each in very different ways, but they are often tripped up by their own baser impulses and existential insecurities. Homesick for Another World is a