Ottessa Moshfegh

Eileen

Caustic portrait of a secretary yearning for meaningful human connection

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Ottessa Moshfegh
Ottessa Moshfegh

American novelist whose My Year of Rest and Relaxation became a cultural phenomenon, its narcotized narrator resonating with a generation. Her fiction is deliberately abrasive and confrontational. She is one of the most discussed literary novelists of her generation.

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