/Literary Arts
9th Ave: Ottessa Moshfegh
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Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Death in Her Hands, her second and third novels, were New York Times bestsellers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World and a novella, McGlue. She lives in Southern California.
SF/Arts Curator Insight
Ottessa Moshfegh visits Green Apple Books to read from her latest novel, “Lapvona”, which follows a motherless shepherd boy caught in a power struggle that puts the entire community to a savage test. Moshfegh won the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction for “Eileen”, and her second and third novels, “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” and “Death in Her Hands”, were both NYT-bestsellers. In-person and online; registration required for online access.
Evan Karp
SF/Arts Curator
Green Apple Books
Green Apple Books is an independent bookstore with locations in the Richmond District on Clement Street, and in the Sunset District on 9th Avenue
Green Apple Books is an independent bookstore with locations in the Richmond District on Clement Street, and in the Sunset District on 9th Avenue