![]() ![]() She keeps a dead field mouse in the glove box of her Dodge Coronet. ![]() And because Eileen’s favorite topic is Eileen, she does not skimp on the details. Eileen is as vivid and human as they come. “I liked books about awful things - murder, illness, death.”īut murder, illness and death are so generic - and Eileen is anything but generic. “I didn’t really read books about flowers or home economics,” she tells us a few pages later. “I looked like a girl you’d expect to see on a city bus,” begins “Eileen,” Ottessa Moshfegh’s seductive novel, “reading some clothbound book from the library about plants or geography, perhaps wearing a net over my light brown hair.” This is the eponymous Eileen, and we quickly learn that any assumptions we might make about her from her appearance would be dead wrong. ![]()
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