![]() ![]() As the two women grow close to one another, Eileen's story makes a Hitchcockian twist, placing the titular protagonist at a crossroads that shocks as deeply as it thrills. One of six finalists contending for the £50,000 Man Booker Prize, Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel Eileen follows its self-loathing (and therefore self-obsessed) narrator into her dangerous infatuation with the beguiling and manipulative Rebecca Saint John. "There's no better way to say it," she says. She is speaking of herself as she was in the 1960s, a girl living with her father in a small New England town where she worked for a boys' prison, shoplifted habitually, became obsessed with a co-worker and committed a crime so violent and so strange, it sent her running into a new life and a new name. "I looked like nothing special," says the old woman. ![]()
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