Book Club - November Pick: Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

For November, we decided to go with a mystery/thriller novel to read as the season changes! We voted and Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh won!

Whether you're into horror or not, I think this is a great opportunity for you to come join our club! Looking forward to discussing this with everyone! All you need to bring to the meeting are your thoughts/opinions on the book for discussion!

You can get 20% off the book at Park Road Books! Just tell them you're part of this book club and they'll apply it!

If you would like to vote on what to read next, you need to first attend a meeting to be able to do so.

"The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father’s 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 meantime, she fills her nights and weekends with shoplifting, stalking a buff prison guard named Randy, and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father’s messes. When the bright, beautiful, and cheery Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counselor at Moorehead, Eileen is enchanted and proves unable to resist what appears at first to be a miraculously budding friendship. In a Hitchcockian twist, her affection for Rebecca ultimately pulls her into complicity in a crime that surpasses her wildest imaginings.

Played out against the snowy landscape of coastal New England in the days leading up to Christmas, young Eileen’s story is told from the gimlet-eyed perspective of the now much older narrator. Creepy, mesmerizing, and sublimely funny, in the tradition of Shirley Jackson and early Vladimir Nabokov, this powerful debut novel enthralls and shocks, and introduces one of the most original new voices in contemporary literature."