Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh He must wear a false

He must wear a false mask and hide his true nature

or those attracted to the Buddha’s teachings

is the traditional astrology of India and its profound yogic culture

If All Quiet on the Western Front was a lament for a lost generation

though no one there has ever heard him sing

Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh He must wear a false*SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016*The 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