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Eileen

★★★☆☆  book

Eileen

A caustic young woman in a bleak New England town becomes transfixed by an elegant new coworker; narrating from decades hence, she excavates her own obsession with unflinching precision. Moshfegh commands an unusual gift for rendering the repellent narrator as utterly compelling. The result is grim and gripping.

what it left me with

The overlooked woman is often the most meticulous observer; her inner world teems with strangeness that her modest exterior could never intimate.

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