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Instead, Vesta becomes both writer and reader to the mystery of her own creation. But despite the seventy-two year old Vesta, her dog Charlie, her lake cabin home and rural setting, Miss Marple this isn’t. The idea of Magda, the mystery of her body and apparent death, and the life that preceded it, takes root in Vesta’s mind until she decides she has to know the truth. But the more she dwells on it, the harder it becomes to let it go. Perhaps this is some sort of joke, she thinks. Vesta Gul, protagonist of Ottessa Moshfegh’s latest novel Death in Her Hands, is perplexed. Just the conspicuous note, printed in blue ballpoint pen on notebook paper, pinned to the forest floor with small black rocks. Here is her dead body.” But the ground is clear.
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