Vesta then visits the library to do more research on Magda. to work at McDonald's through a program for Eastern European students. She begins inventing Magda's past, deciding she was from Belarus. Magda must have been similarly ostracized. Her irritation makes her realize how invisible she is. While at Save-Rite, she mentally criticizes everyone she sees, disgusted by the unkempt members of her community. She ventures into town on an impromptu grocery trip. Feeling unsettled, she takes the note and returns home.Įxcited by the idea of something so horrifying happening in a place like Levant, Vesta decides she must solve Magda's mystery. Though the note also says Magda's body is nearby, Vesta can find no evidence of the dead girl. The note reports the murder of a girl named Magda, and claims that the writer is not the murderer. A year after her move, however, while walking Charlie in the woods, she discovers a mysterious note pinned by rocks. Feeling proud of herself, Vesta is convinced her new life in her mundane town will calm her nerves and quiet her overactive imagination. She moves to a quiet town called Levant, where she buys a cabin in the woods.
Vesta's movements through the narrative world are punctuated by long narrative passages devoted to her complex fantasies, reveries, and memories.Īfter her husband Walter's death, Vesta adopts her dog, Charlie, and flees her longtime home in Monolith. Ottessa Moshfegh's Death in Her Hands is told from 72-year-old Vesta Gul's first person point of view, and divided into seven chapters which subvert a traditional narrative arc. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Moshfegh, Ottessa.
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