Eileen By Ottessa Moshfegh
Eileen By Ottessa Moshfegh Eileen is a 24-year-old living with her alcoholic father in a run-down hoarder house, and working at a youth prison where she spends her time fantasizing about a guard named Randy in between her tedious duties. She has no friends, is taunted by her coworkers, emotionally abused by her father, abandoned by her mother, and has a terrible self-image. Eileen gets through the world by pretending to wear a disinterested mask, while her inner life is fraught with judgements about herself and everyone she meets. She dreams of running away from it all and becoming a new person. When a new employee named Rebecca comes to work at the prison, Eileen finds a new obsession. Rebecca pays attention to Eileen and makes her feel like she actually has a friend for the first time in her life. Rebecca takes an interest in the story of one of the young boy prisoners and learns the boy's story, which she believes, telling Eileen that the boy's crime of killing his fathe...