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Booktok Pick #2: Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh (2015)
The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father’s 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 of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, she fills her nights and weekends with shoplifting, stalking a buff prison guard named Randy, and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father’s messes. When the bright, beautiful, and cheery Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counselor at the prison, Eileen is enchanted and proves unable to resist what appears at first to be a miraculously budding friendship. But her affection for Rebecca ultimately pulls her into complicity in a crime that surpasses her wildest imaginings.
Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, she fills her nights and weekends with shoplifting, stalking a buff prison guard named Randy, and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father’s messes. When the bright, beautiful, and cheery Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counselor at the prison, Eileen is enchanted and proves unable to resist what appears at first to be a miraculously budding friendship. But her affection for Rebecca ultimately pulls her into complicity in a crime that surpasses her wildest imaginings.
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8 hours, 52 minutes • first pub 2015 (editions) user-added
ISBN/UID: 9681490675831
Format: Audio
Language: English
Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
Publication date: 18 August 2015
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8 hours, 52 minutes • first pub 2015 (editions) user-added
ISBN/UID: 9681490675831
Format: Audio
Language: English
Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
Publication date: 18 August 2015
fiction
literary
mystery
thriller
dark
tense
slow-paced
fiction
literary
mystery
thriller
dark
tense
slow-paced
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