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Selected for the inaugural Fence Modern Prize in Prose by Rivka Galchen."Short-fiction genius Ottessa Moshfegh's first novel is a gorgeously sordid story of love and murder on the high seas and in reeky corners of mid-nineteenth-century New York and points North. is a wonderwork of virtuoso prose and truths that will make you squirm and concur."Gary LutzSalem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of name or situation or orientationhe may have killed a man. That man may have been his best friend. Intolerable memory accompanies sobriety. A-sail on the high seas of literary tradition, Ottessa Moshfegh gives us a nasty heartless blackguard on a knife-sharp voyage through the fogs of recollection.Ottessa Moshfegh was awarded the 2013 Plimpton Discovery Prize for her stories in the and a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is currently a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford, and lives in Oakland, California.