EILEEN
By Ottessa Moshfegh

An elderly woman formally known as Eileen reminisces about her formative years growing up in X-Ville.
Awkward and introverted, Eileen worked at a boys’ corrections facility and cared for her father, despite his drunken debauchery and unavailing torment.
She learned to cope with her listless isolation by frequent retreats to her vivid and often lurid imagination.
Eileen’s daydreams find a new focus when Rebecca, a Harvard-trained and well-kept new doctor, starts at the facility.
Impossible to put down, Eileen is a tour of the consciousness of a depraved and lonely soul that grips you until its shocking end.
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