![]() SEE ALSO: Sikh Activist Valarie Kaur Makes a Case for Loving Your Enemy in ‘See No Stranger’Īs the novel opens, Vesta finds a note on the ground while she’s walking her dog. Maybe Vesta most poetically,” Moshfegh said. “I’ve written about incarceration in some form in every novel. Storytelling simultaneously becomes her jailer and her way out of a solitary existence-a paradox at the heart of writing itself. ![]() She attempts to escape her own life by turning into a writer of sorts: She begins inventing characters and other consciousnesses. Yet Vesta’s loneliness eventually becomes a snare of its own, forcing her ever inward. Her husband, Walter, has recently died, liberating her from a stifling marriage. She’s financially comfortable, with no job or responsibilities to constrain her time. Vesta, the protagonist, lives alone in a small town. On the surface, the narrator of Moshfegh’s new novel, Death in Her Hands, is relatively free. ![]()
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