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Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh

Homesick for Another World

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by Ottessa Moshfegh
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  • Jan 17, 2017, 304 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Dec 2017, 304 pages
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"I'll miss you, Waldemar!" I whisper.

I wait for the bad man to let me in.

Excerpted from Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh. Copyright © 2017 by Ottessa Moshfegh. Excerpted by permission of Penguin Press. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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