[Motoya’s] work stands out for its ability to emphasize the power of paying attention and, conversely, the problems that arise in that attention’s absence . . . The success of . . . the collection is built on passages that recognize the outlandish nature of what is happening without writing about them in an outlandish way. That level of control is perhaps Motoya’s crowning achievement in The Lonesome Bodybuilder.

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