A review by wendoxford
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

3.0

We know from the start that the story is going to lead to an escape so that there is inevitably going to be more to the story than a young woman who works at local prison and lives in extreme squalor with her alcoholic father. I found it curious enough to keep page turning. Bleakness set aside a brimming imagination recollected from old age. It's both wild and laconic; restrained and tumultous. A very odd read that, for me, defies categorisation.