Essentially this is a story being told within a story. Going as so far as meeting strangers and giving them roles in her narrative. She creates a complete back story on Magda, who she is, what she was like, to how her death came to be. However, there is no body and Vesta becomes completely obsessed in solving the mystery of Magda. We have a 72 year old woman (a widow) that lives in almost complete solitude with her dog, Charlie, in a cabin on a lake. Ottessa Moshfegh is so insanely talented as a writer but this book was utterly pointless. I have to be honest here and admit that I just didn't get this book. Once again, we are in the hands of a narrator whose unreliability is well earned, only this time the stakes have never been higher.
But as we follow her in her investigation, strange dissonances start to accrue, and our faith in her grip on reality weakens, until finally, just as she seems be facing some of the darkness in her own past with her late husband, we are forced to face the prospect that there is either a more innocent explanation for all this or a much more sinister one - one that strikes closer to home.Ī triumphant blend of horror, suspense, and pitch-black comedy, 'Death in Her Hands' asks us to consider how the stories we tell ourselves both guide us closer to the truth and keep us at bay from it. Her suppositions begin to find echoes in the real world, and with mounting excitement and dread, the fog of mystery starts to form into a concrete and menacing shape. Her brooding about this note quickly grows into a full-blown obsession, and she begins to devote herself to exploring the possibilities of her conjectures about who this woman was and how she met her fate. And she's a little shaky even on best days. She is new to area, having moved her from her longtime home after the death of her husband, and she knows very few people.
Our narrator is deeply shaken she has no idea what to make of this. While on her normal daily walk with her dog in the forest woods, our protagonist comes across a note, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground with a frame of stones.
A novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new home.
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