In this disturbing cozy mystery style novel from one of New England's finest writers, it is hard to know if this work is intentionally meta or whether Moshfegh caught herself in the net she weaves here. Let's get this straight. I [...]
A grimy New York book is always a winner, and here Moshfegh takes the lethargy and defeatism of twentieth century East Coast living and rolls it up into her protagonist, a nameless, monied female narrator on the cusp of George W's [...]
Eileen relates her young life from fifty years ago. By the fifth page, Eileen is a confidante – but her memories are not trustworthy. Eileen’s story builds a picture towards something terrible, as she describes her suffocating near-sexual co-habitation with her [...]