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The finale of this book of short stories.... Then I'm finished. This is my first time reading Ottessa Moshfegh. Anyone have reading suggestions based on this book? I love how it has just the right amount of gritty descriptions and character flaws
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"it was a good life, of course. he wasn't suffering from a grave illness; he wasn't starving; he wasn't being exploited or enslaved. but, gazing out the window of the tour bus on the island, he had felt envious of the locals, of their ability to do whatever was in their nature. his own struggles seemed like petty complications, meaningless snags in the dull itinerary that was his life. why couldn't he live by instinct and appetite, be primitive, be free?"
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