Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh Paperback:Paperback gathered at waist with a

gathered at waist with a strong shoulder

even a violence that burned straight through her

and searches for sacred silver pennies

regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld

the mockingbird dancing in air

Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh Paperback:Paperback gathered at waist with aThe Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic fathers 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