The novel is famously narrated by an older version of Eileen, looking back on a transformative week in 1964. Moshfegh creates a character who is intentionally difficult to love: Eileen is obsessive, keeps a dead bird in her car, and is plagued by body dysmorphia and depression. Yet, this unflinching honesty is exactly what captivated readers and critics, eventually earning the novel the . The Turning Point: Rebecca St. John
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In 2015, Ottessa Moshfegh burst onto the literary scene with a protagonist unlike any other. Eileen is not a story of redemption or traditional growth, but a visceral, darkly comedic descent into the mind of a woman consumed by self-loathing and a desperate need to escape her suffocating existence. A Masterclass in the "Gross Protagonist" The novel is famously narrated by an older