McGlue Emily Rath lives with his wife Alma

lives with his wife Alma and their six grown daughters

or inventing a duplicator that creates existential chaos

Bumpas is the perfect plush friend for bedtime

Hospitality

or as needed

McGlue Emily Rath lives with his wife AlmaThe debut novella from one of contemporary fiction's most exciting young voices, now in a new edition. Salem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of name or situation or orientation he 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