Ottessa moshfegh eileen review6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Delvin Moorehead was a terrible landlord I had years later, and so to use his name for such a place feels appropriate. In a week, I would run away from home and never go back. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes-a prison for boys. ![]() I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. Synopsis (from Amazon): A lonely young woman working in a boys’ prison outside Boston in the early 60s is pulled into a very strange crime, in a mordant, harrowing story of obsession and suspense, by one of the brightest new voices in fiction. ![]() Should this be one of the books that makes the shortlist, a few of the other judges may read it and we’ll repost with all our reviews. Our next book is one that only two of us read: Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh. ![]()
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