
Ottessa Moshfegh Reads David Means
The New Yorker: Fiction
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The Counterpoint Between a Brother and a Homeless Brother
In the second part, there's a lot of time spent thinking in the car. The only times that were actually with the brother, I think it's when he drinks a coffee and they have this sort of choked up moment. Being alone in a car is definitely a place for rumination. And at the end, it comes up in the idea of the narrator imagining the brother jumping off a cliff and flying and feeling for a moment free - which are radically different.
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