Eileen

By Ottessa Moshfegh

Categories: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Eileen (2015) is Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel, set in a grim coastal Massachusetts town in the days before Christmas 1964. Twenty-four-year-old Eileen Dunlop works as a secretary at a boys' prison and cares for her alcoholic father while dreaming of escape to New York. When glamorous counselor Rebecca Saint John arrives, Eileen is drawn into a friendship that pulls her toward a crime far beyond her fantasies.

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• Reese Witherspoon: “I loved Moshfegh's 2015 literary thriller, "Eileen."”