Eileen
2015 • 260 pages

Ratings168

Average rating3.5

15

A darkly humorous exploration of how personal trauma and societal norms can entrap individuals, leading to a distorted sense of self and morality. Eileen's life is a cocktail of internalized oppression, self loathing, societal expectations, the quest for liberation (or maybe just peace with oneself?) shaken not stirred. I like how physicality is entangled with emotional turmoil and they both keep feeding out of each other.

I don't know, I just love a disgusting and unreliable narrator and I'm in my self loathing mentally ill era so it was good but this meeting could have been a novella.

April 13, 2025