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Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
Compared to My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Eileen just ain’t it. “I was like Joan of Arc, or Hamlet, but born into the wrong life—the life of a nobody, a waif, invisible. There’s no better way to say it: I was not myself back then. I was someone else. I was Eileen.” Vile, vulgar,…
1960s, 1st pov, 20th century, 3 STARS, abuse, addiction, Adult, ALIENATION, America, American, AMERICAN AUTHOR, BOOK REVIEW, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, dark, dark humor, eileen, endless monologues, ennui, fathers & daughters, favourite authors, female authors, grotesque, HISTORICAL FICTION, introspective, kidnapping, LITERARY FICTION, Massachusetts, MURDER, navel gazing, obsession, Ottessa Moshfegh, prison, queer undercurrents, re-reads, toxic relationships, unreliable narrators, WINTER, winter reads, work culture -
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
“Sleep felt productive. Something was getting sorted out. I knew in my heart—this was, perhaps, the only thing my heart knew back then—that when I’d slept enough, I’d be okay. I’d be renewed, reborn. I would be a whole new person, every one of my cells regenerated enough times that the old cells were just…
1st pov, 2000s, 4.5 STARS, ALIENATION, America, American, AMERICAN AUTHOR, anxiety, ART/CREATIVITY, bad love, Contemporary, contemporary malaise, dark humor, DEPRESSION, eating disorders, ennui, existentialism, female authors, graphic content, identity, illness, introspective, LITERARY FICTION, mental health, millennial, mothers & daughters, mumblecore, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, NEW YORK, Ottessa Moshfegh, place as character, psychological, published in 2018, read in 2021, SOCIAL COMMENTARY, toxic relationships, unnamed narrator
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