EILEEN

Sinopsis

In the bleak days before Christmas, twenty-four-year-old Eileen Dunlop lives a life she desperately wants to escape. She spends her days as a secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility and her nights caring for her alcoholic father in a filthy home that has become a source of shame. Isolated and consumed by resentment, Eileen dreams of leaving everything behind while passing the time with shoplifting, fantasies, and an unhealthy fascination with a prison guard. Then Rebecca Saint John arrives at the facility. Beautiful, confident, and seemingly kind, Rebecca quickly becomes the center of Eileen’s world, offering what feels like the possibility of friendship and a different life. But their relationship takes a disturbing turn when Rebecca draws Eileen into a crime far beyond anything she could have imagined. Told by an older Eileen looking back on the events that led to her disappearance, Ottessa Moshfegh’s Eileen is a dark, unsettling, and sharply funny novel about obsession, loneliness, complicity, and the desire to escape.