Inwardly, however, Eileen is a seething cauldron of neuroses and resentments.
Living in the dirtiest house on the block, wearing her dead mother’s ill-fitting clothes, Eileen’s life is outwardly shabby but more or less normal. Eileen Dunlop is 24-years-old and splits her time between cleaning up the messes of her severely alcoholic father and the secretarial work she hates at a boys prison in her coastal New England hometown, referred to as X-ville.
Taking place over the week of Christmas, 1964, Eileen immediately shatters any sentimentalism about Christmas, that era, or anything really. It’s hilariously dark, enlightened yet caustic take on gender, but most of all, Eileen, both the book and the character, are seductively ugly, confiding details of that ugliness in such a cunning yet nonchalant fashion that the reader can never look away.
Collisions of contradictions give Eileen, the debut novel from Ottessa Moshfegh, a unique allure.
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