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Book eileen by ottessa moshfegh5/13/2023 ![]() On Friday, Eileen spends her time counting down the clock at her job fantasizing about Randy, a prison guard she has a crush on and being annoyed with her fellow secretaries, Mrs. She fantasizes about leaving and moving to New York City. Eileen is deeply unhappy with her life and her self. ![]() Her mother died several years prior, and her sister Joanie lives a town over and visits sporadically. She lives with her father, a former police officer who is an alcoholic and suffers from paranoia where he believes he is being watched. In 1964, 24-year-old Eileen is a secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys, which she calls Moorehead. ![]() Plot Įileen narrates the events of her last week in her home town, a small Massachusetts town she calls X-ville, 50 years previously. The novel was adapted into a 2023 film of the same name. ![]() ![]() It won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for debut fiction and was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize and the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award. Eileen is a 2015 novel by Ottessa Moshfegh, published by Penguin Press. ![]()
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