She spends her free time running to the liquor store for her father, stalking one of the prison guards, and hating her own body. Eileen is the daughter of a manipulative alcoholic ex-cop widower, and a secretary at a boys’ prison. Over the past couple decades, consumers have fallen in love with the “strong female protagonist,” but I wouldn’t apply this cliche right away to Ottessa Moshfegh’s main characters - especially not Eileen’s titular character, a young woman stagnating in her hometown and her own self-pity in the 1960s. “I looked so boring, lifeless, immune and unaffected, but in truth I was always furious, seething, my thoughts racing, my mind like a killer’s.“ Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen Review Content Warning: Alcoholism mentionīook Content Warning: Alcoholism, Emotional Abuse, Violence, Discussions of Pedophilia, Sexual Content, Death, Sexual Abuse
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