Death in Her Hands is a brilliant blend of horror, suspense, and the darkest comedy. This book requires readers to examine how the stories we tell ourselves both reflect the truth and keep us blindly safe from it.

Ottessa Moshfegh's first book, McGlue, a novella, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World. Her stories have been published in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and Granta, and have earned her a Pushcart Prize, an O. Henry Award, and the Plimpton Discovery Prize. 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, her second novel, was a New York Times bestseller.

Ottessa Moshfegh is appearing in conversation with Canadian author Sheena Kamal.

Ottessa Moshfegh: Death in Her Hands