
Bettering Myself
2013
First Published
3.98
Average Rating
15
Number of Pages
Short story from the April, 2013 Paris Review. My classroom was on the first floor, next to the nuns’ lounge. I used their bathroom to puke in the mornings. One nun always dusted the toilet seat with talcum powder. Another nun plugged the sink and filled it ...
Avg Rating
3.98
Number of Ratings
608
5 STARS
34%
4 STARS
39%
3 STARS
20%
2 STARS
6%
1 STARS
2%
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Author

Ottessa Moshfegh
Author · 20 books
Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Death in Her Hands, her second and third novels, were New York Times bestsellers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World and a novella, McGlue. She lives in Southern California.