Ottessa moshfegh new book5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() 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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