Eileen ottessa moshfegh review5/19/2023 ![]() Like Moshfegh’s follow-up novel, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Eileen is immersive, intense, and character-driven. This is both integral to the main plot and brings real-life importance to the novel Moshfegh does not ignore the sociopolitical implications of her main character being a young white woman in a position of power in a prison for young men. Eileen has an intimate and obsessive relationship with her prison workplace. 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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