Bullwinkel’s writing has been published in Tin House, The White Review, Conjunctions, BOMB, Vice, NOON, and Guernica.

Rita Bullwinkel is the author of the story collection Belly Up, which won the 2018 Believer Book Award. Henry Award, the Plimpton Prize, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her stories have earned her a Pushcart Prize, an O. Ottessa Moshfegh is the author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation, a New York Times bestseller Homesick for Another World, a New York Times Book Review notable book of the year Eileen, which was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction and McGlue, which won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. Once again, we are in the hands of a narrator whose unreliability is well earned, and the stakes have never been higher. As her investigation widens, strange dissonances accrue, perhaps associated with the darkness in her own past we must face the prospect that there is either an innocent explanation for all this or a much more sinister one.Ī triumphant blend of horror, suspense, and pitch-black comedy, Death in Her Hands asks us to consider how the stories we tell ourselves both reflect the truth and keep us blind to it. Oddly, her suppositions begin to find correspondences in the real world, and with mounting excitement and dread, the fog of mystery starts to fade into menacing certainty. With very little to go on, she invents a list of murder suspects and possible motives for the crime. She is new to this area, alone after the death of her husband, and she knows no one.īecoming obsessed with solving this mystery, our narrator imagines who Magda was and how she met her fate. Our narrator is deeply shaken she has no idea what to make of this. Here is her dead body.' But there is no dead body. While on her daily walk with her dog in a secluded woods, a woman comes across a note, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground by stones.

To view, please click the 'Watch Here' button at the time of the event, or subscribe to our e-newsletter to receive a ten-minute reminder.įrom one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds an ominous note on a walk in the woods. This event will be broadcast live and does not require registration to attend.

Death in her hands novel