![]() ![]() Her fantasies on what most likely happened to Magda begin to bleed into her real interactions with various townsfolk. ![]() Her quixotic investigation takes her to the public library, where she uses ASK JEEVES for tips on solving a murder mystery. Vesta’s feelings about the townsfolk border between dislike and paranoia. It is then we are reminded that she is seventy-two years old and the combination of age and extreme isolation may be taking its toll on her. At times, our narrator seems to be in a proper state of mind, others not so much. Soon, Vesta is on a quest to discover the truth, creating a backstory for Magda, as well as constructing a fictional narrative in her mind as to what truly happened.Īs Vesta takes personal responsibility for solving Magda’s murder, we then begin to see that something doesn’t feel quite right. Her curiosity about this mystery triggers an obsessive search for Magda’s identity and how she died. A recent widow, she lives alone in this new area with no friends or family. ![]() Here is her dead body.” The problem is that there is no dead body. ![]() While walking her dog in the secluded woods near her home, an elderly widow named Vesta comes across a handwritten note, carefully pinned to the ground with stones. Death in Her Hands (2020) by Ottessa Moshfegh, Photo Credit: Natalie Getter ![]()
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