Shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize and chosen by David
Sedaris as his recommended book for his Fall 2016 tour. So here we
are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four
years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week
as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility
for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all
intents and purposes-a prison for boys. I will call it Moorehead.
Delvin Moorehead was a terrible landlord I had years later, and so
to use his name for such a place feels appropriate. In a week, I
would run away from home and never go back. This is the story of
how I disappeared. The Christmas season offers little cheer for
Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped
between her role as her alcoholic father's caretaker in a home
whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a
secretary at the boys' prison, filled with its own quotidian
horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers
her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to
the big city. In the meantime, she fills her nights and weekends
with shoplifting, stalking a buff prison guard named Randy, and
cleaning up her increasingly deranged father's messes. When the
bright, beautiful, and cheery Rebecca Saint John arrives on the
scene as the new counselor at Moorehead, Eileen is enchanted and
proves unable to resist what appears at first to be a miraculously
budding friendship. In a Hitchcockian twist, her affection for
Rebecca ultimately pulls her into complicity in a crime that
surpasses her wildest imaginings. Played out against the snowy
landscape of coastal New England in the days leading up to
Christmas, young Eileen's story is told from the gimlet-eyed
perspective of the now much older narrator. Creepy, mesmerizing,
and sublimely funny, in the tradition of Shirley Jackson and early
Vladimir Nabokov, this powerful debut novel enthralls and shocks,
and introduces one of the most original new voices in contemporary
literature.Ottessa Moshfegh is also the author of My Year of Rest
and Relaxation, Homesick for Another World: Stories, and McGlue.
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