Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh*SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016*The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic fathers caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams

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