Still haunted by their marriage, Vesta compares him to Harrison Ford, but the comparison is too flattering. Toward the beginning of the novel, Vesta explains her rationale for moving to an isolated cabin in the woods: “My mind needed a smaller world to roam.” Her late husband Walter had been a larger-than-life figure, and a man well respected in his scientific field. Escher, and Death in Her Hands is a literary double of his lithograph Drawing Hands: we experience Vesta creating Magda while Magda creates Vesta. I left it there, of course.” Wheels start turning: is Magda implying that she left the note there for a moment or left it there for herself to find? Or is this Moshfegh showing her hand-Moshfegh did leave us this note, after all. In these first pages, Vesta claims, “No I didn’t see her body. Readers learn a girl named Magda has been killed. The note, like so much in this metafictional story, is spooky. Death in Her Hands, the third novel by Ottessa Moshfegh, begins when Vesta Gul, a seventy-two-year-old recent widow, moves to a rural town and finds a note during her usual walk in the woods.
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