Eileen is a portal into the mind of Eileen Dunlop—a 24 y/o woman who tries to make her life bearable by swimming in anger and self-loathing. She works at a juvenile correctional facility and lives with her alcoholic father in a shambles of a house.

As she fantasizes her ‘great escape’ from her dreary town, enters Rebecca Saint John—a contrasting character whom Eileen will be drawn into, of which will ultimately leads her into being complicit in a crime.

・・✭✩ — Here’s to our very first Ottessa Moshfegh on the show! I’ve been anticipating to read and do a review of one of her works and I’m so happy that I finally get to do this!

If you’re up for a character-driven thriller, or been wanting to read a Moshfegh novel, then I highly recommend listening to this one. A gripping novel that meditates on a young woman’s damaged psyche, Eileen kept me turning pages because i’m anxious for what will unfold next. — ✭✩・・

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