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Rippling with dark humor and creepily compelling, Otessa Moshfegh has created an unforgettable protagonist that you'll immediately connect with. This is a story packed with surprises, completely unpredictable and abounding with empathy.

Now a major motion picture streaming on Hulu, starring Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize

Eileen is a remarkable piece of writing, always dark and surprising, sometimes ugly and occasionally hilarious. Its first-person narrator is one of the strangest, most messed-up, most pathetic—and yet, in her own inimitable way, endearing—misfits I’ve encountered in fiction. Trust me, you have never read anything remotely like Eileen.” Washington Post

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