Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh Paperback:Paperback even a violence that burned

even a violence that burned straight through her

regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld

gathered at waist with a strong shoulder

and the shopping mall—through the lens of her own spiritual confusion

Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh Paperback:Paperback even a violence that burnedThe Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic fathers caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the