"Eileen" by Ottessa Moshfegh should be read by those who appreciate psychological thrillers with twisted and unexpected plots. This novel follows the story of a disturbed young woman who finds herself enchanted by her co-worker. What follows is a descent into obsession and complicity in a crime that will surely shock the reader. Moshfegh's writing style is atmospheric and darkly humorous, perfect for those who want to be enveloped in a creepy world that is both disturbing and captivating.

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• Booker Prize Nominee (2016)
• Shirley Jackson Award Nominee for Novel (2015)
• National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2015)
• The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominee for Longlist (2015)
• PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel (2016)

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. Ottessa Moshfeg

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