Otessa Moshfegh: "Though Jackson often starts off [her stories] rather benignly - her characters are never panicked from the get-go, but snake their way into states of dismay - she has a mystifying knack for illustrating the horrifying uncertainties around the basic laws of reality. Am I alone in doubting that things aren't always what they seem? Upon awakening, I often ask myself, 'Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing here?' and from time to time, I-ve felt that the answers were merely memorized responses, and that my reality might be an arbitrary dash of the imagination - believable, sure, but not entirely trustworthy. This specific vulnerability - of the conscious, willful mind - is precisely what Jackson titillates and exacerbates in her stories."
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